CVE-2026-15973 (GCVE-0-2026-15973)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-26 20:42 – Updated: 2026-08-26 20:42
VLAI
Title
LimeSurvey 7.0.5 - Stored XSS in Survey Menu Entries
Summary
LimeSurvey Community Edition 7.0.5 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Survey Menu Entries administration page. An authenticated user with the global settings:read permission can create a survey menu entry containing attacker-controlled data. The value is stored in the surveymenu_entries.data field and later inserted into a single-quoted HTML title attribute without context-appropriate encoding. This issue affects LimeSurvey: 7.0.5.
Severity
8.4 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
LimeSurvey LimeSurvey Affected: 7.0.5
    cpe:2.3:a:limesurvey:limesurvey:7.0.5:*:windows:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:limesurvey:limesurvey:7.0.5:*:macos:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:limesurvey:limesurvey:7.0.5:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Miguel Gomez Fluid Attacks' AI SAST Scanner
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