CVE-2024-13505: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The Survey Maker plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-13505) discovered in January 2025. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 5.1.3.3. The issue exists in the 'ays_sections[5][questions][8][title]' parameter and specifically impacts multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled (NVD).

The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the Survey Maker plugin. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.8 (Medium) by NIST with a vector string of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, while Wordfence assessed it at 5.5 (Medium) with a vector string of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) (NVD).

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with administrator-level access to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page (NVD).

A patch has been released to address this vulnerability. Users should upgrade their Survey Maker plugin to a version newer than 5.1.3.3 (WordPress Patch).