Description
The Watu Quiz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'watu-basic-chart' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Published: 2024-04-09
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-16656 The Watu Quiz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'watu-basic-chart' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Watu Quiz <= 3.4.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Kibokolabs
Kibokolabs watu Quiz
Weaknesses CWE-79
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:kibokolabs:watu_quiz:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Kibokolabs
Kibokolabs watu Quiz

Subscriptions

Kibokolabs Watu Quiz
Wordpress Wordpress
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:20:18.826Z

Reserved: 2024-01-24T21:15:09.815Z

Link: CVE-2024-0873

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:18:18.989Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-04-09T19:15:15.480

Modified: 2026-04-08T19:19:18.813

Link: CVE-2024-0873

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-12T22:01:25Z

Weaknesses