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CVE-2026-27469 (GCVE-0-2026-27469)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-21 07:24 – Updated: 2026-02-24 18:50
VLAI?
Title
Isso: Stored XSS via comment website field
Summary
Isso is a lightweight commenting server written in Python and JavaScript. In commits before 0afbfe0691ee237963e8fb0b2ee01c9e55ca2144, there is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the website and author comment fields. The website field was HTML-escaped using quote=False, which left single and double quotes unescaped. Since the frontend inserts the website value directly into a single-quoted href attribute via string concatenation, a single quote in the URL breaks out of the attribute context, allowing injection of arbitrary event handlers (e.g. onmouseover, onclick). The same escaping is missing entirely from the user-facing comment edit endpoint (PUT /id/) and the moderation edit endpoint (POST /id//edit/). This issue has been patched in commit 0afbfe0691ee237963e8fb0b2ee01c9e55ca2144. To workaround, nabling comment moderation (moderation = enabled = true in isso.cfg) prevents unauthenticated users from publishing comments, raising the bar for exploitation, but it does not fully mitigate the issue since a moderator activating a malicious comment would still expose visitors.
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium)
CWE
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
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Affected:
< 0afbfe0691ee237963e8fb0b2ee01c9e55ca2144
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