CVE-2024-13505 Survey Maker <= 5.1.3.3 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Survey Question
Administrators can inject arbitrary scripts via survey questions in multi-site or restricted HTML environments, leading to stored XSS.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-13505?
CVE-2024-13505 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in ays-pro Survey Maker, published on 26 Jan 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Survey Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘ays_sections[5][questions][8][title]’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.3.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-13505?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ays-Pro Survey Maker.
How do I fix CVE-2024-13505?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-13505 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2024-13505 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13505 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in ays-pro Survey Maker
- CVE-2023-23490 SQL injection in Survey Maker WordPress Plugin
- CVE-2021-24459 Survey Maker < 1.5.6 - Authenticated Blind SQL Injections
- CVE-2023-0038 Survey Maker – Best WordPress Survey Plugin <= 3.1.3 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- CVE-2024-29918 WordPress Survey Maker plugin <= 4.0.6 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
- CVE-2023-34423 Cross-site scripting in Survey Maker
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fp6x-mq75-x6gh.