CVE-2026-14824 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) WordPress plugin before 11.2.2 does not properly escape a question setting before outputting it into an unquoted HTML attribute, allowing users with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary JavaScript that executes in the browser of any user viewing the affected quiz.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00163.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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Vendors	Products

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ba8f3e6b-c2c9-4e72-825c-b98b4330c254/

History

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79 CWE-83

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		The Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) WordPress plugin before 11.2.2 does not properly escape a question setting before outputting it into an unquoted HTML attribute, allowing users with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary JavaScript that executes in the browser of any user viewing the affected quiz.
Title		Quiz And Survey Master < 11.2.2 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Polar Question
References		https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ba8f3e6b-c2c9-4e72-825c-b98b4330c254/

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2026-08-04T06:00:09.863Z

Updated: 2026-08-04T17:32:29.922Z

Reserved: 2026-07-06T08:45:44.217Z

Link: CVE-2026-14824

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-04T17:31:24.809Z

NVD

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Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-04T09:30:06Z

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