GHSA-fr47-r224-c36m

Cross-site Scripting in LimeSurvey

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2019-16172

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Packagist	limesurvey/limesurvey	< 3.17.14	3.17.14

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

LimeSurvey before v3.17.14 allows stored XSS for escalating privileges from a low-privileged account to, for example, SuperAdmin. The attack uses a survey group in which the title contains JavaScript that is mishandled upon group deletion.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16172 advisory
https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/32d6a5224327b246ee3a2a08500544e4f80f9a9a web
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/27 web
https://www.limesurvey.org/limesurvey-updates/2188-limesurvey-3-17-14-build-190902-released web
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154479/LimeSurvey-3.17.13-Cross-Site-Scripting.html web
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/22 web