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CVE-2024-5606: Quiz And Survey Master < 9.0.2 - Contributor+ SQLi

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 35/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.59% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: Unknown Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) 9.0.2.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Unknown Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) 9.0.2 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

The Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) WordPress plugin before 9.0.2 is vulnerable does not validate and escape the question_id parameter in the qsm_bulk_delete_question_from_database AJAX action, leading to a SQL injection exploitable by Contributors and above role

HighCVSS 8.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

SQL injection

Published: Jul 2, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.5% · 48th percentile
CWE: CWE-89

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.5%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: proof of concept
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
expresstech	quiz and survey master	cpe:2.3:a:expresstech:quiz_and_survey_master

Affected versions

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expresstech quiz and survey masterbefore 9.0.2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WPScan). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Unknown Quiz and Survey Master (QSM)
- before 9.0.2affected · semver

Same product

expresstech: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2020-35951An issue was discovered in the Quiz and Survey Master plugin before 7.0.1 for WordPress.
62This week
CVE-2020-35949An issue was discovered in the Quiz and Survey Master plugin before 7.0.1 for WordPress.
41Plan
CVE-2022-41652WordPress Quiz And Survey Master plugin <= 7.3.10 - Bypass vulnerability
39Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2023-51507Jun 13, 2024 · WordPress Quiz And Survey Master plugin <= 8.1.16 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
21Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-4934Jul 1, 2024 · Quiz And Survey Master < 9.0.2 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
22Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-6025Jul 11, 2024 · Quiz and Survey Master < 9.0.5 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Unknown Quiz and Survey Master (QSM)	9.0.2	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Project Blackfinder
WPScancoordinator

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2023-2878798 days apartWordPress Quiz And Survey Master plugin <= 8.1.4 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection vulnerability
38Monitor
CVE-2024-359225 days apartQuiz And Survey Master – Best Quiz, Exam and Survey Plugin for WordPress <= 9.0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection
26Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

TR-24-0857 · Jul 3, 2024(WordPress Eklenti Güvenlik Bildirimi)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-89 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

The query text is built by concatenating user input. The database cannot tell where the data ends and the command begins.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-89 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1const owner = req.query.owner;
2const rows = await db.query(
3  "SELECT * FROM files WHERE owner = '" + owner + "'"
4);

Fixed

1const owner = req.query.owner;
2const rows = await db.query(
3  "SELECT * FROM files WHERE owner = $1",
4  [owner]
5);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:11 PM UTC

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