High
Quiz And Survey Master <= 8.0.8 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Media Deletion
Type: advisorySources: OSV
The Quiz And Survey Master for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the function associated with the qsm_remove_file_fd_question AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 8.0.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary media files.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-0291
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 14:16 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Quiz And Survey Master <= 8.0.8 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Media Deletion
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 9 Jun 2023, 05:33 UTC
The Quiz And Survey Master for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the function associated with the qsm_remove_file_fd_question AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 8.0.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary media files.
osv:CVE-2023-0291
Complete source record
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