CVE-2026-116645

LimeSurvey Community Edition 7.8.0 contains an SQL injection vulnerability in the survey-archive participant import and SPSS-response export workflow. An authenticated user with global surveys.create permission can import a crafted .lsa archive whose participant XML creates an attacker-named attribute column. When the user exports responses from the imported non-anonymous survey, LimeSurvey passes the persisted name to Yii's select builder. Names containing parentheses are treated as SQL expressions instead of quoted identifiers, causing attacker-controlled SQL to execute with the application's database privileges.

• https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/
• https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/master/application/helpers/admin/import_helper.php
• https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/master/application/helpers/export_helper.php

• https://fluidattacks.com/es/advisories/pantera
• https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/
• https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/master/application/helpers/admin/import_helper.php
• https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/master/application/helpers/export_helper.php

• HIGHCVE-2015-20122
• HIGHCVE-2015-20128PoC
• HIGHCVE-2019-25776PoC
• HIGHCVE-2019-25778PoC
• HIGHCVE-2021-48008
• HIGHCVE-2022-4997
• HIGHCVE-2022-51021PoC
• HIGHCVE-2022-51023PoC

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