CVE-2026-77643 (GCVE-0-2026-77643)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-20 21:23
Modified
2026-08-28 18:08
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
A cross-site scripting vulnerability in
queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc in Xapian xapian-core before 2.1.0 and before 1.4.32 exists due to incomplete HTML escaping by Xapian::MSet::snippet(). NOTE: this issue exists because of a missed corner case of CVE-2018-0499.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xapian | xapian-core |
Version: 2.0.0 ≤ Version: 0 ≤ |
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
|---|
Nomenclature
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- Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.
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