CVE-2026-73628
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
Serendipity versions >= 2.3.5 and <= 2.6.0 contain a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in the search clean-URL route (/search/<term>). In include/functions_routing.inc.php serveSearch(), the sanitisation pipeline runs urldecode() after HTML-encoding, so a single URL-encoded HTML payload survives strip_tags() and htmlspecialchars() and is then decoded back into live HTML in the page. A crafted search link can execute arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser. Fixed in 2.6.1.
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
5.3
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Deferred
Source identifier
Published
2026-08-13 12:17:28.183000
Last modified
2026-10-24 15:10:00.190000
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"sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
"published": "2026-08-13T12:17:28.183",
"lastModified": "2026-10-24T15:10:00.190",
"vulnStatus": "Deferred",
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}
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"affected": [
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"source": "[email protected]",
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