CVE-2026-11780
Description
The Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) – Easy Quiz and Survey Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'question_title' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 11.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
Propose a mitigation on Community Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quiz-master-next/tags/11.0.0/php/admin/options-page-questions-tab.php#L1557
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quiz-master-next/tags/11.0.0/php/admin/options-page-questions-tab.php#L1580
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quiz-master-next/tags/11.0.0/php/rest-api.php#L301
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quiz-master-next/tags/11.0.0/php/rest-api.php#L741
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quiz-master-next/tags/11.1.4/php/admin/options-page-questions-tab.php#L1557
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quiz-master-next/tags/11.1.4/php/admin/options-page-questions-tab.php#L1580
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quiz-master-next/tags/11.1.4/php/rest-api.php#L301
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quiz-master-next/tags/11.1.4/php/rest-api.php#L741
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3609172%40quiz-master-next&new=3609172%40quiz-master-next
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3612474%40quiz-master-next&new=3612474%40quiz-master-next
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/66334c29-c9d6-48b0-8d6b-bae588da0331?source=cve
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.