PT-2019-14553 · Limesurvey · Limesurvey

Andreas Kolbeck + 1 · Published 2019-09-09 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2019-16173

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions LimeSurvey versions prior to 3.17.14

Description The issue allows for reflected XSS, enabling the escalation of privileges from a low-privileged account to a higher-privileged one, such as SuperAdmin. This occurs in the application/core/Survey Common Action.php file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.17.14, update to version 3.17.14 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-16173

GHSA-R5F2-4WF4-CV66

Affected Products

Limesurvey

References · 9

• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154479/LimeSurvey-3.17.13-Cross-Site-Scripting.html · Exploit
• 🔥 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/22 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/47386 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/27 · Exploit
• https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/f1c1ad2d24eb262363511fcca2e96ce737064006 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-r5f2-4wf4-cv66 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-16173 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16173 · Security Note
• https://limesurvey.org/limesurvey-updates/2188-limesurvey-3-17-14-build-190902-released · Note