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SCA: security update for limesurvey/limesurvey (GHSA-fr47-r224-c36m)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 414666

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - LimeSurvey before v3.17.14 allows stored XSS for escalating privileges from a low-privileged account to,
 for example, SuperAdmin. The attack uses a survey group in which the title contains JavaScript that is
 mishandled upon group deletion. (CVE-2019-16172)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fr47-r224-c36m

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 414666

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16172

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16172

cwe: CWE-79