CVE-2026-38949

high

Published 2026-04-28 · Modified 2026-05-10

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CVSS v3

8.9

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.9

Description

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in HTMLy version 3.1.1 in the content creation functionality at the /add/content?type=image endpoint. The application fails to properly sanitize user input, allowing injection of arbitrary code

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

93%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.