CVE-2026-15973

What it is

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.

At a glance

Exploitability

Can be exploited over the network with an admin-level account, but needs a user to act. High risk of data exposure, data tampering.

Exploit odds

0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).

Fix

No patch or advisory is linked yet. Look at mitigations or restrict exposure.

Timeline

1. 2026-08-26 21:16 UTC PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
2. 2026-08-28 15:31 UTC Last updatedMost recent change to the record

Details

Published

2026-08-26 21:16 UTC

Last modified

2026-08-28 15:31 UTC

Exploit probability

0.4% · EPSS, next 30 days

Weakness

CWE-79 · Cross-site scripting

Record status

Deferred

Attack profile CVSS 4.0 · 8.4

Attack vector

Network

Complexity

Low

Attack requirements

None

Privileges needed

High

User interaction

Passive

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None