{"answers":{"affected":"2 open source packages ship an affected version, including limesurvey/limesurvey. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2019-16172 exists.","fix":"Upgrade limesurvey/limesurvey to 3.17.14 or later.","what":"CVE-2019-16172 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Limesurvey Limesurvey, published on 9 Sep 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2019-16172 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2019-16172 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Limesurvey Limesurvey, published on 9 Sep 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2019-16172 exists.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- limesurvey/limesurvey (Packagist): affected all versions; fixed in 3.17.14\n- limesurvey/limesurvey (Packagist): affected all versions; fixed in 3.17.14\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-16172/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-16172/index.md)","id":"CVE-2019-16172","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-16172/index.md","name":"CVE-2019-16172","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-fr47-r224-c36m"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"LimeSurvey","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Stored XSS in LimeSurvey allows low-privileged users to escalate privileges to SuperAdmin via malicious survey group titles.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"limesurvey","vendor":"limesurvey"}],"cvss":{"score":5.4,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-79","name":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation"}],"description":"LimeSurvey before v3.17.14 allows stored XSS for escalating privileges from a low-privileged account to, for example, SuperAdmin. The attack uses a survey group in which the title contains JavaScript that is mishandled upon group deletion.","ecosystems":["Packagist"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2019-09-13","github_poc":1,"max_poc_stars":5,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2024-10-05T08:30:54Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/TrixSec/CVE-2019-16172","stars":5,"title":"The CVE-2019-16172 Scanner is designed to check LimeSurvey instances for the stored XSS vulnerability."},{"date":"2019-09-13","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"47386","stars":null,"title":"LimeSurvey 3.17.13 - Cross-Site Scripting"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Cross-site Scripting in LimeSurvey","id":"CVE-2019-16172","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"Packagist","product":"limesurvey:limesurvey","products":["limesurvey:limesurvey"],"type":"xss","year":"2019"},"n_packages":2,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"Cross-site Scripting in LimeSurvey","id":"CVE-2019-16173"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"Packagist","fixed":["3.17.14"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"limesurvey/limesurvey","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-fr47-r224-c36m"},{"ecosystem":"Packagist","fixed":["3.17.14"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"limesurvey/limesurvey","purl":"pkg:composer/limesurvey/limesurvey","source":"GHSA-fr47-r224-c36m"}],"prev":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-16171"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2019-09-09","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Deserialization in n/a","id":"CVE-2025-56422","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-03-10"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"File upload in n/a","id":"CVE-2022-48008","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-01-27"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"SQL injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-25019","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-02-14"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-11455","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-04-01"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-16184","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-09-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-9960","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-03-24"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"TCPDF vulnerable to attackers triggering deserialization of arbitrary data","id":"CVE-2018-17057","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-09-14"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-05","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Stored XSS in LimeSurvey allows low-privileged users to escalate privileges to SuperAdmin via malicious survey group titles.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-16172/"}