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WordPress Plugin: quiz-maker: CVE-2023-6155: Missing Authorization

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Published

Nov 30, 2023

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Quiz Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the ays_quiz_author_user_search function in all versions up to 6.4.9.5 (exclusive). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform a search for users and obtain user email addresses.

Solution

quiz-maker-plugin-cve-2023-6155

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6155
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/96bc27f3-6aa4-4119-9978-5e9dee5f1796?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2023-58405
CVE-2023-6155
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-6155
CWE-287
EUVD-EUVD-2023-58405

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