Lime Survey Community Edition 5.3.32+220817 General Setting Administrator email address cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Lime Survey Community Edition 5.3.32+220817. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component General Setting. This manipulation of the argument Administrator email address causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-24506. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Lime Survey Community Edition 5.3.32+220817. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component General Setting. The manipulation of the argument Administrator email address with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Lime Survey Community Edition Version v.5.3.32+220817, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the Administrator email address parameter in the General Setting function.

The advisory is shared at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-24506 since 01/25/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (51926). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.6

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VulDB Temp Score: 3.2
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

01/25/2024 🔍
04/03/2024 +68 days 🔍
04/03/2024 +0 days 🔍
04/09/2025 +371 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 51926
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2024-24506 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-24506
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-259117
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 04/03/2024 09:52
Updated: 04/09/2025 10:04
Changes: 04/03/2024 09:52 (58), 08/16/2024 00:19 (13), 04/09/2025 10:04 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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