CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-40472

9.9 CRITICAL Published 2026-04-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
2026-04-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
74b3a70d-cca6-4d34-9789-e83b222ae3be
CVSS 3.1 (74b3a70d-cca6-4d34-9789-e83b222ae3be)
9.9 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-79

Description

In hackage-server, user-controlled metadata from .cabal files are rendered into HTML href attributes without proper sanitization, enabling stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References