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CVE-2023-5956: Wp-Adv-Quiz <= 1.0.2 - Admin+ Stored XSS in Quiz Overview

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-01-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Wp-Adv-Quiz WordPress plugin through 1.0.2 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 disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Affected products

• Wp-Adv-Quiz: through 1.0.2

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b3d1fbae-88c9-45d1-92c6-0a529b21e3b2/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b3d1fbae-88c9-45d1-92c6-0a529b21e3b2/

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