CVE-2026-43938CWE-116CWE-79CWE-80

YAF.NET: Unauthenticated Stored Second-Order XSS in Admin Event Log via Reflected `User-Agent` Header

High · published May 12, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
31.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

YetAnotherForum.NET (YAF.NET) is a C# ASP.NET forum. Prior to 4.0.5 and 3.2.12, the application's database logger (YAFNET.Core/Logger/DbLogger.cs) captures the incoming request's User-Agent header into a JObject, serializes it with JsonConvert, and stores the result in the EventLog.Description column whenever an event (e.g., an unhandled exception) is logged. The admin event-log page (YetAnotherForum.NET/Pages/Admin/EventLog.cshtml.cs) later deserializes that JSON in FormatStackTrace() and interpolates the UserAgent value directly into an HTML string with no encoding, and the Razor view EventLog.cshtml emits the result through @Html.Raw. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.5 and 3.2.12.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00384 · 31.3th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-116 · Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output; CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'); CWE-80 · Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)
Published
2026-05-12T13:57Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 MAY 13:57Z
    YAF.NET: Unauthenticated Stored Second-Order XSS in Admin Event Log via Reflected `User-Agent` Header
    cvelistv5