Vulnerability · Published Aug 26, 2026 · Assigned by Fluid Attacks

CVE-2026-15973LimeSurvey 7.0.5 - Stored XSS in Survey Menu Entries

High 8.4

In plain English

A high-severity cross-site scripting in LimeSurvey from LimeSurvey. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 39% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)8.4High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 61.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
LimeSurvey	LimeSurvey	7.0.5

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

References

https://fluidattacks.com/es/advisories/backstreet third-party-advisory
https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey product