CVE detail

CVE-2019-12517 — CVE-2019-12517

Published 2019-09-13 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor slickquiz_project · Product slickquiz · Source nvd
MEDIUM
severity
CVSS-derived band
6.1
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.0125
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
67.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

Description

An XSS issue was discovered in the slickquiz plugin through 1.3.7.1 for WordPress. The save_quiz_score functionality available via the /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php endpoint allows unauthenticated users to submit quiz solutions/answers, which are stored in the database and later shown in the WordPress backend for all users with at least Subscriber rights. Because the plugin does not properly validate and sanitize this data, a malicious payload in either the name or email field is executed directly within the backend at /wp-admin/admin.php?page=slickquiz across all users with the privileges of at least Subscriber.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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