SEPTEMBER 18, 2026
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CVE-2026-15973

HIGH · CVSS 8.4 EPSS 0.26% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS · Published 2026-08-26 · Last synced 2026-09-18

CyberRota Analysis

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LimeSurvey Community Edition 7.0.5 is vulnerable to a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in the Survey Menu Entries administration page, allowing authenticated users with read permissions to inject malicious scripts through survey menu entries. This vulnerability could lead to unauthorized access to sensitive data or session hijacking, posing a significant risk to users and their data integrity. Organizations using this version of LimeSurvey should prioritize patching to mitigate potential exploitation.

Public Exploit Signal

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CVE
CVE-2026-15973
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.4
EPSS
0.26%

Original NVD Description

LimeSurvey Community Edition 7.0.5 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Survey Menu Entries administration page. An authenticated user with the global settings:read permission can create a survey menu entry containing attacker-controlled data. The value is stored in the surveymenu_entries.data field and later inserted into a single-quoted HTML title attribute without context-appropriate encoding. This issue affects LimeSurvey: 7.0.5.