Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Ngsurvey (CVE-2025-15479)
Summary
Cross-site scripting in Ngsurvey (CVE-2025-15479). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS, CWE-79) in the survey content and administration functionality in Data Illusion Zumbrunn NGSurvey Enterprise Edition 3.6.4 on all supported platforms (
on Windows and Linux servers ) allows authenticated remote users with survey creation or edit privileges to execute arbitrary JavaScript in other users’ browsers, steal session information and perform unauthorized actions on their behalf via crafted survey content that is rendered without proper output encoding.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-15479 has been found in Ngsurvey.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.4/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Ngsurvey CVE-2025-15479" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-15479 (Ngsurvey) — CWE-79 / CVSS v3 5.4
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable)
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) (CWE-79) exists in Ngsurvey.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Ngsurvey.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.4/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Ngsurvey' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Ngsurvey' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Ngsurveyを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
- advisory cds.thalesgroup.com
- web docs.ngsurvey.com