CVE-2026-96558CWE-79cross-site-scripting

CVE-2026-96558

High · published October 10, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) – Quiz Maker & Survey Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via the 'qsm_hidden_questions' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 11.2.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This requires the attacker to force the mlw_results INSERT to fail by submitting an over-length or duplicate qsm_unique_key value, which triggers the audit trail code branch that writes the unescaped payload to wp_mlw_qm_audit_trail.form_data.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.2 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00241 · 14.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2026-10-10T11:16Z
References (7)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 OCT 03:33Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 10 OCT 06:40Z
    Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) <= 11.2.6 - Unauthenticated Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via 'qsm_hidden_questions' Parameter
    cvelistv5
  • 10 OCT 06:40Z
    Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) <= 11.2.6 - Unauthenticated Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via 'qsm_hidden_questions' Parameter
    cvelistv5