CVE-2026-1247
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
21/03/2026
Last modified:
23/03/2026
Description
The Survey plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 1.1 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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
4.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/survey/tags/1.1/inc/form.php#L73
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/survey/tags/1.1/inc/shortcode.php#L35
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/survey/trunk/inc/form.php#L73
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/survey/trunk/inc/shortcode.php#L35
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4d9b6efa-b82e-4fe5-bf56-4ca49e9ebe71?source=cve



