CVE-2025-9637 (GCVE-0-2025-9637)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-06 09:20 – Updated: 2026-01-06 14:19
VLAI?
Title
Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) <= 10.3.1 - Missing Authorization to Unpublished, Private And Password-Protected Quiz Information Disclosure And Image Response Uploads
Summary
The Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) – Easy Quiz and Survey Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to a missing capability and status checks on multiple functions in all versions up to, and including, 10.3.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to view the details of unpublished, private, or password-protected quizzes, as well as submit file responses to questions from those quizzes, which allow file upload.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
expresstech Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) – Easy Quiz and Survey Maker Affected: * , ≤ 10.3.1 (semver)
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Credits
Rahul Sreenivasan
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