CVE-2025-32275
📋 TL;DR
This vulnerability allows attackers to bypass authentication in the Ays Pro Survey Maker WordPress plugin by spoofing identities. It affects all WordPress sites running Survey Maker plugin versions up to 5.1.5.4, potentially allowing unauthorized access to survey administration functions.
💻 Affected Systems
- Ays Pro Survey Maker WordPress Plugin
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Attackers gain administrative access to survey data, modify survey results, extract sensitive respondent information, or compromise the WordPress site through plugin privileges.
Likely Case
Unauthorized users access survey administration features, view or modify survey data, potentially exposing personally identifiable information from survey responses.
If Mitigated
With proper access controls and monitoring, impact is limited to unauthorized survey data access without broader system compromise.
🎯 Exploit Status
Authentication bypass vulnerabilities are frequently weaponized due to their simplicity and impact.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: 5.1.5.5 or later
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Log into WordPress admin panel
2. Navigate to Plugins → Installed Plugins
3. Find 'Survey Maker' plugin
4. Click 'Update Now' if update available
5. If no update appears, manually download version 5.1.5.5+ from WordPress repository
6. Deactivate old plugin, upload new version, activate
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Disable Survey Maker Plugin
allTemporarily deactivate the vulnerable plugin until patched
wp plugin deactivate survey-maker
Restrict Plugin Access
allUse web application firewall to block access to survey-maker admin endpoints
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement strict network segmentation to isolate WordPress installation
- Enable detailed logging and monitoring for unauthorized access attempts to survey endpoints
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check WordPress admin → Plugins → Survey Maker version. If version is 5.1.5.4 or lower, system is vulnerable.Check Version:
wp plugin get survey-maker --field=versionVerify Fix Applied:
Verify plugin version is 5.1.5.5 or higher in WordPress admin panel.📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unauthorized access to /wp-admin/admin.php?page=survey-maker* endpoints
- Multiple failed authentication attempts followed by successful survey admin access
Network Indicators:
- Unusual traffic patterns to survey administration endpoints from unexpected IPs
SIEM Query:
source="wordpress.log" AND ("survey-maker" AND ("admin.php" OR "unauthorized"))