MEDIUM5.4

GHSA-r5f2-4wf4-cv66

Cross-site Scripting in LimeSurvey

Quick fix

GHSA-r5f2-4wf4-cv66 — limesurvey/limesurvey: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

composer require limesurvey/limesurvey:^3.17.14

Details

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,

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Affected packages

Packagist/limesurvey/limesurvey

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 3.17.14

Fixcomposer require limesurvey/limesurvey:^3.17.14

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16173[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/f1c1ad2d24eb262363511fcca2e96ce737064006[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]