Plugin inspection:

Quiz And Survey Master (Formerly Quiz Master Next)

Potentially unsafe

Last revised:

Confidence: Medium
This plugin has been given a short, targeted code review.

Before using this plugin, you should very carefully consider its potential problems and should conduct a thorough assessment. Read more about this recommendation.

Warnings

This recommendation applies to version 4.5.4 of this plugin, but the most recent version is 9.2.3. These findings may no longer be correct.

Findings

  • The plugin contains CSRF and XSS vulnerabilities
  • Uses if(is_seralized(…)) { unserialize(…); } which could lead to unseralisation vulnerabilities

Reason for the 'Potentially unsafe' result

The plugin contains or is likely to contain a vulnerability which could be exploited by an end user and which would compromise the site’s confidentiality, integrity or availability:

Failure criteria

  • Unsafe request processing
  • Lack of proper output escaping

Read more about our failure criteria.