The HD Quiz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions 2.2.0 to 2.2.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the hdq_validate_nonce function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete or modify quizzes and questions, create new quizzes, and change plugin settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
CVE-2026-13422
Score 4.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-06-27. a secondary CVSS source baseline 4.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 4.3
- EG Score
- 4.3(high)
- EPSS
- 7.6%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 27, 2026
Last Modified
June 29, 2026
References (16)
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hd-quiz/tags/2.2.0/includes/actions-ajax.php#L155
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hd-quiz/tags/2.2.0/includes/actions-ajax.php#L179
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hd-quiz/tags/2.2.0/includes/actions-ajax.php#L53
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hd-quiz/tags/2.2.0/includes/actions-ajax.php#L68
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hd-quiz/tags/2.2.0/includes/actions-ajax.php#L7
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hd-quiz/tags/2.2.0/includes/actions-ajax.php#L87
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hd-quiz/tags/2.2.0/includes/functions.php#L39
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hd-quiz/tags/2.2.1/includes/actions-ajax.php#L155
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hd-quiz/tags/2.2.1/includes/actions-ajax.php#L179
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hd-quiz/tags/2.2.1/includes/actions-ajax.php#L53
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hd-quiz/tags/2.2.1/includes/actions-ajax.php#L68
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hd-quiz/tags/2.2.1/includes/actions-ajax.php#L7
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hd-quiz/tags/2.2.1/includes/actions-ajax.php#L87
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hd-quiz/tags/2.2.1/includes/functions.php#L39
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hd-quiz/tags/2.2.2/includes/functions.php#L40
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-13422(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 22× in last 7d / 33× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 15:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 15:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 16:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 16:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 18:06 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 18:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-03 19:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-03 19:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-02 20:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-02 20:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-01 21:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-01 21:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-01 15:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-01 15:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 22:38 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-30 22:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-29 23:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-29 23:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-29 00:52 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-06-29 00:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-28 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-28 04:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-28 04:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-28 02:00 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-28 02:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-27 03:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-27 03:08 UTCNVD updatefirst tracked
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