CVE-2026-129152javahuang SurveyKing missing authentication
CVE-2026-129152 is a missing authentication in javahuang SurveyKing, rated medium (6.9 on CVSS 4.0).
Why this priority: Medium severity, with no exploitation signal.
Published · Updated · NVD status: Deferred
What it is
A function that should require sign-in can be called by anyone.
How it is reached
An attacker can exploit it over the network, without an account, and nobody has to click anything.
What an attacker gains
The direct impact is limited: partial access to data or a partial outage. In practice, this kind of flaw lets an attacker act as a signed-in user, or an administrator, without valid credentials.
Is it being exploited?
There is no public report of exploitation yet.
What to do
- No fixed version is listed yet. Find every place javahuang SurveyKing runs, watch the references for a fix, and plan a replacement if it is no longer supported.
- While there is no fix, keep it off the internet or behind a VPN, allowlist or authenticating proxy.
Description from NVD
SurveyKing 1.12.0 through 1.13.2 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to submit survey responses because AnswerServiceImpl.saveAnswer skips login-required and survey password checks. Attackers can submit responses to protected surveys and set createBy in the request body to impersonate other users, corrupting survey results.
What this means for your architecture.
A CVE names a product. Whether it matters depends on where that product sits in your systems: what reaches it, which trust boundary it guards and what it can reach once compromised. Veriom maps your components, their relationships and your trust boundaries from your code, cloud and delivery evidence, so you can see where a component like this sits. The radar itself does not look at your systems.
Components it touches
- Sign-in, session and token handling. The flaw sits between anonymous callers and authenticated sessions.
- Identity providers and SSO. The flaw sits between anonymous callers and authenticated sessions.
Trust boundaries in play
- Internet-facing entry points. No account is needed. Any instance reachable from outside your perimeter, through a load balancer, gateway, VPN or exposed admin port, is in scope.
- Between anonymous callers and authenticated sessions. An attacker who crosses it can act as a signed-in user, or an administrator, without valid credentials.
Questions to answer about your own systems
- Where does javahuang SurveyKing run in your systems, and at which version?
- Which of those instances can be reached from the internet or partner networks?
- What can it reach once compromised: which data stores, secrets and services?
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Issue reports
More reading
- github.com/javahuang/SurveyKing/blob/5de0d05b682ee34244c0b6c07be24eb6358cd8a5/server/rdbms/src/main/java/cn/surveyking/server/impl/AnswerServiceImpl.java#L216-L230
- github.com/javahuang/SurveyKing/blob/5de0d05b682ee34244c0b6c07be24eb6358cd8a5/server/rdbms/src/main/java/cn/surveyking/server/impl/SurveyServiceImpl.java#L226-L236
- vul.yulun.ac.cn/20261107/surveyking/
Sources
- CVE records and CVSS scores from the NVD CVE API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Exploitation status from CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
- Exploit likelihood from FIRST’s Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), refreshed daily.
- Explanations are written by Veriom from fixed templates over each record’s data, not by a person reviewing each CVE. Descriptions are quoted from the records as published.