What is CVE-2025-14579?

CVE-2025-14579 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Quiz Maker, classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2026-01-12.

How severe is CVE-2025-14579?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Quiz Maker

CVE-2025-14579

The Quiz Maker WordPress plugin before 6.7.0.89 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability…

EPSS: 0.002 (8.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Unknown Quiz Maker — versions 0

References

contact@wpscan.com (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-14579?: CVE-2025-14579 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Quiz Maker, classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2026-01-12.
How severe is CVE-2025-14579?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.