High severity · published Sep 29, 2026
CVE-2026-97685
LimeSurvey Community Edition 7.3.0 - Cross-survey object authorization bypass in REST survey patch operations
7.1
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An authenticated LimeSurvey Community Edition 7.3.0 user allowed to create surveys can use their own survey as an authorized context while supplying question or answer identifiers belonging to another user's survey. The REST survey-patching endpoint checks the attacker's permission against the survey ID in the request URL, but the vulnerable persistence operations resolve the target object independently by its global qid or aid and never verify that it belongs to that authorized survey.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 23% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
LimeSurvey · LimeSurvey
7.3.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-97685
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97685
third-party-advisory
https://fluidattacks.com/es/advisories/zoo
product
https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/
patch
https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/a39a01537a8f79581bd630bcac94f71ae6ce2cce
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