CVE-2026-50190CWE-79cross-site-scripting

CVE-2026-50190

published August 20, 2026

CVSS
8.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
36.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Shaarli is a personal bookmarking service. Versions prior to 0.16.3 are vulnerable to stored XSS in `application/front/controller/visitor/BookmarkListController.php`. The `permalink` handler concatenates the raw `$bookmark->getTitle()` into the `pagetitle` template variable and the RainTPL template emits it into the document `<title>` element without HTML escaping. A bookmark title containing `</title><script>...</script>` closes the document title early and the injected script executes in the Shaarli origin for any visitor of `/shaare/{hash}`. Shaarli's metadata fetcher copies a remote page's `<title>` text verbatim into the local bookmark title, so an attacker who hosts an attacker-controlled URL and convinces an administrator to bookmark it plants the payload with no further interaction — and the resulting permalink fires for every visitor including the administrator on first save, providing a one-shot administrator account takeover. Version 0.16.3 fixes the issue.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
8.6 · NONE
CVSS v4.0
8.6 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00436 · 36.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2026-08-20T23:16Z
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 AUG 18:49Z
    Shaarli vulnerable to stored XSS via raw bookmark title in document <title> element on public permalink page
    cvelistv5