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WordPress Plugin: survey-maker: CVE-2023-23490: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 12, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Survey Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL injection in versions before 3.1.2 via the 'ays_surveys_export_json' AJAX action. This allows authenticated attackers, including those with subscriber-level privileges, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Solution

survey-maker-plugin-cve-2023-23490
Title
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