Description
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.
Published: 2026-08-26
Score: 8.4 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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.
Title LimeSurvey 7.0.5 - Stored XSS in Survey Menu Entries
First Time appeared Limesurvey
Limesurvey limesurvey
Weaknesses CWE-79
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:limesurvey:limesurvey:7.0.5:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:limesurvey:limesurvey:7.0.5:*:macos:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:limesurvey:limesurvey:7.0.5:*:windows:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Limesurvey
Limesurvey limesurvey
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.4, 'vector': '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'}

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Limesurvey Limesurvey
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Fluid Attacks

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-26T20:42:44.008Z

Reserved: 2026-07-16T15:33:16.944Z

Link: CVE-2026-15973

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-26T21:16:38.063

Modified: 2026-08-26T21:16:38.063

Link: CVE-2026-15973

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-79

    Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')