CVE-2019-14512 — LimeSurvey 3

LimeSurvey 3.17.7+190627 has XSS via Boxes in application/extensions/PanelBoxWidget/views/box.php or a label title in application/views/admin/labels/labelview_view.php.

01What is this vulnerability?

LimeSurvey 3.17.7+190627 has XSS via Boxes in application/extensions/PanelBoxWidget/views/box.php or a label title in application/views/admin/labels/labelview_view.php.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-03-16T14:43:38.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T00:19:41.219Z

09References

• www.limesurvey.org — https://www.limesurvey.org/
• www.linkedin.com — https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelecisternino/
• github.com — https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/f2566f6978a77e3f0870079c45cda1c0…
• github.com — https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/0b7391dff91b326284ca3fc5188b768b…