CVE-2020-25798

medium

Description

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in LimeSurvey before and including 3.21.1 allows authenticated users with correct permissions to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via parameter ParticipantAttributeNamesDropdown of the Attributes on the central participant database page. When the survey attribute being edited or viewed, e.g. by an administrative user, the JavaScript code will be executed in the browser.

References

https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/38e1ab069b538de7cb5f3a04939aba8e835640cb

https://bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=15672

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-11-17

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00261