🛡️ CVE-2024-28710 — limesurvey

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

LimeSurvey Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in LimeSurvey before 6.5.0+240319 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a lack of input validation and output encoding in the Alert Widget's message component.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-28710 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2024-28710 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • limesurvey
  • limesurvey/limesurvey (fixed in 6.5.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 16 October 2024 and last revised on 5 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

limesurvey.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-10-16
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-05

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
limesurvey — —
limesurvey/limesurvey — 6.5.0

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