QID 730697

Date Published: 2023-01-17

QID 730697: WordPress Plugin Survey Maker SQL Injection Vulnerability

Survey Maker is a powerful, yet easy-to-use WordPress plugin designed for collecting data from a particular group of people and analyze it.

CVE-2023-23490: 'ays_surveys_export_json' AJAX action in survey maker wordpress plugin is vulnerable to sql injection. Affected Versions:
Survey Maker versions prior to 3.1.2

QID Detection Logic(Unauthenticated): This unauthenticated detection depends on the BlindElephant engine to detect the vulnerable version of the Survey Maker plugin.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an authenticated attacker to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 8.8 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.5 severity.
  • Solution
    Customers are requested to update to Survey Maker Plugin 3.1.2 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

    Vendor References

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    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    Survey Maker Release Notes URL Logo wordpress.org/plugins/survey-maker/#developers
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