CVE-2020-25798

5.4 mediumEPSS 0.6%

Medium (5.4) in limesurvey limesurvey. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.4 medium

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

EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 50% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2020-11-17
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

limesurvey:limesurvey

References

https://bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=15672
https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/38e1ab069b538de7cb5f3a04939aba8e835640cb
https://bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=15672
https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/38e1ab069b538de7cb5f3a04939aba8e835640cb

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