CVE-2018-1000659

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-09-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

LimeSurvey version 3.14.4 and earlier contains a directory traversal in file upload that allows upload of webshell vulnerability in file upload functionality that can result in remote code execution as authenticated user. This attack appear to be exploitable via An authenticated user can upload a specially crafted zip file to get remote code execution. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit 72a02ebaaf95a80e26127ee7ee2b123cccce05a7 / version 3.14.4.

Affected products

LimeSurvey: through 3.14.4

References

https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/72a02ebaaf95a80e26127ee7ee2b123cccce05a7
https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/72a02ebaaf95a80e26127ee7ee2b123cccce05a7

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