Vulnerability · Published Feb 22, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-44967
High 8.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 13.5% (higher than 96% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
A Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilty exists in LimeSurvey 5.2.4 via the upload and install plugins function, which could let a remote malicious user upload an arbitrary PHP code file. NOTE: the Supplier's position is that plugins intentionally can contain arbitrary PHP code, and can only be installed by a superadmin, and therefore the security model is not violated by this finding.