CVE-2024-8488 Cross-site scripting in Survey Maker

Medium 4.4 Published 8 Oct 2024 Updated 8 Apr 2026

Administrators can inject scripts into Survey Maker fields, affecting multi-site or restricted HTML installations, potentially leading to session hijacking or malicious actions.

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-2024-8488?

CVE-2024-8488 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in ays-pro Survey Maker, published on 8 Oct 2024. 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 Survey fields in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, 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-2024-8488?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ays-Pro Survey Maker.

How do I fix CVE-2024-8488?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8488 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-2024-8488 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8488 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-7cfq-84qm-pqqw.