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CVE-2026-2412: Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) <= 10.3.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection via 'merged_question' Parameter

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-03-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

The Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'merged_question' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 10.3.5. This is due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input before being used in a SQL query. The sanitize_text_field() function applied to the merged_question parameter does not prevent SQL metacharacters like ), OR, AND, and # from being included in the value, which is then directly concatenated into a SQL IN() clause without using $wpdb->prepare() or casting values to integers. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Affected products

• ExpressTech Quiz And Survey Master: through 10.3.5

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quiz-master-next/tags/10.3.5/php/classes/class-qsm-questions.php#L387
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quiz-master-next/tags/10.3.5/php/rest-api.php#L760
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3486710/quiz-master-next/trunk/php/classes/class-qsm-questions.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3486710/quiz-master-next/trunk/php/rest-api.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b32bf1cb-3722-41fc-be51-dabe80416b14?source=cve

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