CVE-2026-14824

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Description

The Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) WordPress plugin before 11.2.2 does not properly escape a question setting before outputting it into an unquoted HTML attribute, allowing users with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary JavaScript that executes in the browser of any user viewing the affected quiz.

Overview

State: PUBLISHED
Assigner (CNA): WPScan
CVSS severity: —
CVSS score: —
CVSS vector: —
Effective score: no score available from CNA, NVD, or AI yet
CWE(s): CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Reserved: 2026-07-06
Published: 2026-08-04 06:00 UTC
Last updated: 2026-08-04 17:32 UTC
Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2026/14xxx/CVE-2026-14824.json

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Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Unknown	Quiz and Survey Master (QSM)	`0` (affected)	—

Vendor references (1)

References embedded in the original CVE record by the assigning CNA.

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ba8f3e6b-c2c9-4e72-825c-b98b4330c254/ exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

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Raw JSON

The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2026-14824.json.

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