Grade forgery via client-trusted Score objects
Published Apr 11, 2025 · Updated Apr 11, 2025
Access-control bypass in W. W. Norton & Company InQuizitive through 2025-04-08 allows remote authenticated users to forge quiz records. Globally accessible Score objects let students alter score, grade, time, question-history, and completion fields before Score.write_score() sends them to a backend that performs no integrity validation. A valid student session and browser developer tools suffice to record perfect completion and, when LMS integration is enabled, propagate the falsified grade to the connected gradebook.
Summary
What happened
Access-control bypass in W. W. Norton & Company InQuizitive through 2025-04-08 allows remote authenticated users to forge quiz records. Globally accessible Score objects let students alter score, grade, time, question-history, and completion fields before Score.write_score() sends them to a backend that performs no integrity validation. A valid student session and browser developer tools suffice to record perfect completion and, when LMS integration is enabled, propagate the falsified grade to the connected gradebook.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-32808
- Published
- Apr 11, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 11, 2025
- Vendor
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Product
- InQuizitive
- Classifications
- CWE-602, T1565.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 11, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 11, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=2025-04-08
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- InQuizitive grade-record injection proof of conceptfunctional · demonstrated
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