CVE-2023-0292 (GCVE-0-2023-0292)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-09 05:33 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:21
VLAI?
Title
Quiz And Survey Master <= 8.0.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Media Deletion
Summary
The Quiz And Survey Master plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 8.0.8. This is due to missing nonce validation on the function associated with the qsm_remove_file_fd_question AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary media files via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
expresstech Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) – Easy Quiz and Survey Maker Affected: 0 , ≤ 8.0.8 (semver)
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Credits
Julien Ahrens
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