01 Record
CVE-2019-16173
LimeSurvey before v3.17.14 allows reflected XSS for escalating privileges from a low-privileged account to, for example, SuperAdmin. This occurs in application/core/Survey_Common_Action.php,
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
LimeSurvey before v3.17.14 allows reflected XSS for escalating privileges from a low-privileged account to, for example, SuperAdmin. This occurs in application/core/Survey_Common_Action.php,
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.67% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 89.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.4 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2019-09-09 18:23Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 01:10Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-09-09
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 09f1bcf4d45da13b5a485fe9e7ede875cc28487651e20a94e97b342d779aead3
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.limesurvey.orghttps://www.limesurvey.org/limesurvey-updates/2188-limesurvey-3-17-14-build-190902-released
- github.comhttps://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/f1c1ad2d24eb262363511fcca2e96ce737064006
- seclists.org20190912 SEC Consult SA-20190912-0 :: Stored and reflected XSS vulnerabilities in LimeSurveyhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/22
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154479/LimeSurvey-3.17.13-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- seclists.org20190916 SEC Consult SA-20190912-0 :: Stored and reflected XSS vulnerabilities in LimeSurveyhttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/27