MEDIUMVulnerability
CVE-2026-72553
A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in ElkArte Forum 2.0 Beta 1 allows any registered member to inject persistent JavaScript into the profile fields cust_blurb and cust_locate. The fields are saved without HTML encoding and rendered unescaped in profile views visible to administrators. An attacker can craft a payload that executes in an administrator session, enabling session hijacking or privilege escalation.
Properties
- severity
- MEDIUM
- score
- 5.4
- epss_score
- 0.00162
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-72553
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- published_at
- 2026-08-11T12:17:40.980
- last_modified
- 2026-09-03T17:51:46.420
- epss_percentile
- 0.05641
Related Entities (3)
ENRICHED_BY (1)
→[Source]FIRST EPSS
DESCRIBED_BY (1)
→[Source]NVD
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
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