VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4995

medium
Published 2012-09-19 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/userrighthandling.php in LimeSurvey before 1.91+ Build 120224 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the full_name parameter in a moduser action to admin/admin.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
limesurveylimesurvey{"endIncluding":"1.91\\+"}
limesurveylimesurvey1.01
limesurveylimesurvey1.50
limesurveylimesurvey1.52
limesurveylimesurvey1.53\+
limesurveylimesurvey1.70\+
limesurveylimesurvey1.71\+
limesurveylimesurvey1.72
limesurveylimesurvey1.80\+
limesurveylimesurvey1.81\+
limesurveylimesurvey1.82\+
limesurveylimesurvey1.85
limesurveylimesurvey1.86
limesurveylimesurvey1.87\+
limesurveylimesurvey1.90\+

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.