CVE-2024-8758
Published: 23 September 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-8758 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Expresstech Quiz And Survey Master. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 49.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-49401
Vulnerability details
The Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) WordPress plugin before 9.1.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is…
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disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
- 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.