{"id":"CVE-2018-16397","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-16397","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:09:44.841Z","title":"In LimeSurvey before 3.14.7, an admin user can leverage a \"file upload\" question to read an arbitrary file,","description":"In LimeSurvey before 3.14.7, an admin user can leverage a \"file upload\" question to read an arbitrary file,","published":"2018-09-03T15:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:44:13.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":4.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-434"],"affected":["limesurvey/limesurvey"],"epss":{"score":0.0104,"percentile":0.63822,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.04%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/3be9b41e76826b57f5860d18d93b23f47d59d2e4/docs/release_notes.txt#L51","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/3be9b41e76826b57f5860d18d93b23f47d59d2e4/docs/release_notes.txt#L51","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16397","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}