CVE-2026-94488 (GCVE-0-2026-94488)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-21 17:29
Modified
2026-09-21 17:51
Severity ?
8.3 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
8.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
8.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
Telegram Desktop before 6.9.4 allows XSS in the HTML exporter. (The first fixed stable version is 7.0.1.) This occurs in button.text.toUtf8 in export_output_html.cpp. Exploitation cannot occur unless HTML export was used by a victim. However, the exploit payload can be exported if a message were forwarded into a group by a member (it is not necessary for the message author to be a member of a group).
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telegram | Telegram Desktop |
Version: 4.15.1 ≤ |
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
|---|
Nomenclature
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