CVE-2026-102626: LimeSurvey Community Edition stored XSS in Date/Time question

CVE-2026-102626 · Severity: info · Published 2026-10-02

LimeSurvey is an open-source survey and forms platform. An authenticated user with permission to create surveys can inject malicious JavaScript into a Date/Time question field, which executes in the browser of any user viewing that question. This could allow account takeover or data theft from survey respondents.

Technologies: LimeSurvey Community Edition. Vendors: LimeSurvey.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2026-102626 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-102626 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2026-102626?
Informational severity, published 2 October 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?
LimeSurvey Community Edition 7.4.0.
Is there a fix for CVE-2026-102626?
No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
How is CVE-2026-102626 attacked?
It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
Am I affected by CVE-2026-102626?
Check whether you run LimeSurvey Community Edition at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

Technical details

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in LimeSurvey Community Edition 7.4.0 where the date_min attribute of a Date/Time question accepts JavaScript-breaking values that are inserted into single-quoted inline JavaScript without proper encoding. An authenticated user with the Surveys: create permission can exploit this; when another user renders the affected question, the malicious payload executes in their browser context.

Affected products

  • LimeSurvey Community Edition 7.4.0

Timeline

  • 2026-10-02: disclosed

References

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