CVE-2026-35055 (GCVE-0-2026-35055)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-01 00:30
Modified
2026-04-01 15:51
Severity ?
5.1 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
XenForo before 2.3.9 and before 2.2.18 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) related to lightbox usage in posts. An attacker can inject malicious scripts that execute when users interact with post content displayed in the lightbox.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
XenForo XenForo Version: 2.3.0   ≤
Version: 0   ≤
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