CVE-2024-4061: Survey Maker < 4.2.9 - Admin+ Stored XSS via Plugin Settings

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: 2024-05-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Survey Maker WordPress plugin before 4.2.9 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

Ays Pro Survey Maker: before 4.2.9 — fixed in 4.2.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Ays Pro Survey Maker 4.2.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/175a9f3a-1f8d-44d1-8a12-e037251b025d/
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/175a9f3a-1f8d-44d1-8a12-e037251b025d/

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