CVE-2024-8488: Survey Maker (WordPress plugin) · Cross-site Scripting
Affects Survey Maker (WordPress plugin)Source CVE Database V5
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 4.4 Medium.
Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 14:05 UTC
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 20% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 8 Oct 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.
What to do
Affected software
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| ays-pro Survey Maker | Affected
| Fixed in– |
AI-suggested
Until an official fix is available, administrators should carefully control and audit users with administrator-level permissions and consider restricting access to the Survey Maker plugin in multi-site or unfiltered_html-disabled environments. Monitoring for suspicious script injections in survey content is advisable. Avoid granting unnecessary high-level privileges to reduce risk.
Description
The Survey Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Survey fields in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
References
- wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5e04edb6-ef37-4ea8-a734-dbdcf689ba9b?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3155029/survey-maker/tags/4.9.6/includes/class-survey-maker-data.php?old=3153722&old_path=survey-maker%2Ftags%2F4.9.5%2Fincludes%2Fclass-survey-maker-data.php (opens in a new tab)