CVE-2018-1000053

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

LimeSurvey version 3.0.0-beta.3+17110 contains a Cross ite Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Theme Uninstallation that can result in CSRF causing LimeSurvey admins to delete all their themes, rendering the website unusable. This attack appear to be exploitable via Simple HTML markup can be used to send a GET request to the affected endpoint.

Affected products

LimeSurvey: 3.0.0-beta3

References

https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/1e440208a8d8bfd71ad7802e6369a136e8bba3dd
https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/1e440208a8d8bfd71ad7802e6369a136e8bba3dd

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