CVE-2025-10042: The Quiz Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via spoofed IP headers in all versions up to, and including, 6.7.0.56 due to insufficient…

PriorityP261high7.5CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSUCHINAN

EXPLOIT

EPSS

0.89%

54.8th percentile

The Quiz Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via spoofed IP headers in all versions up to, and including, 6.7.0.56 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. This is only exploitable in configurations where the server is set up to retrieve the IP from a user-supplied field like `X-Forwarded-For` and limit users by IP is enabled.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
ays-pro	quiz_maker	< 6.7.0.57	6.7.0.57
ays-pro	quiz_maker	<= 6.7.0.56	—

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

commandX-Forwarded-For↗

→Alert on anomalous response-time delays (≥0.8s threshold used by exploit) correlated with requests carrying a manipulated X-Forwarded-For header to quiz endpoints. ↗
→The exploit targets unauthenticated requests; correlate with absence of authenticated session cookies alongside suspicious X-Forwarded-For header values. ↗

·The vulnerability is only exploitable when the WordPress server is configured to trust a user-supplied IP header AND the 'limit users by IP' feature is enabled in Quiz Maker. Deployments without these settings are not affected. ↗
·Affected versions are all releases up to and including 6.7.0.56 of the Quiz Maker plugin for WordPress. ↗

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