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Quiz And Survey Master – Best Quiz, Exam and Survey Plugin for WordPress, CVE-2021-24221

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2021-24221

Published on
Apr 12, 2021
Research Description
The Quiz And Survey Master – Best Quiz, Exam and Survey Plugin for WordPress plugin before 7.1.12 did not sanitise the result_id GET parameter on pages with the [qsm_result] shortcode without id attribute, concatenating it in a SQL statement and leading to an SQL injection. The lowest role allowed to use this shortcode in post or pages being author, such user could gain unauthorised access to the DBMS. If the shortcode (without the id attribute) is embed on a public page or post, then unauthenticated users could exploit the injection.
Affected versions
Min -, max 7.1.12.
Status
vulnerable