CVE-2026-5797 PUBLISHED

Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) <= 11.1.0 - Unauthenticated Shortcode Injection Leading to Arbitrary Quiz Result Disclosure via Quiz Answer Text Input Fields

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 08.04.2026 Published: 17.04.2026 Updated: 17.04.2026

The Quiz And Survey Master plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution in versions up to and including 11.1.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and the execution of do_shortcode() on user-submitted quiz answer text. User-submitted answers pass through sanitize_text_field() and htmlspecialchars(), which only strip HTML tags but do not encode or remove shortcode brackets [ and ]. When quiz results are displayed, the plugin calls do_shortcode() on the entire results page output (including user answers), causing any injected shortcodes to be executed. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary WordPress shortcodes such as [qsm_result id=X] to access other users' quiz submissions without authorization, as the qsm_result shortcode lacks any authorization checks.

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CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor expresstech
Product Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) – Easy Quiz and Survey Maker
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 10.1.0 (incl.)

Credits

  • Rafshanzani Suhada finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') CWE