CVE-2024-6390
Published: 03 August 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-6390 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Expresstech Quiz And Survey Master. Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 30.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-47497
Vulnerability details
The Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) WordPress plugin before 9.1.0 does not properly sanitise and escape some of its Quizz settings, which could allow high privilege users such as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.