{"id":"CVE-2026-73161","aliases":["EUVD-2026-55993","GHSA-9p42-c923-p9c9"],"status":"published","title":"cti-transmute Conversion Table Allows XSS via Unescaped Cell Content During Search Highlighting","description":"Affected versions of cti-transmute improperly handle conversion-table values passed through the search highlighting feature. The highlight() function previously returned the underlying text directly when no search query was supplied, or performed a regex replacement that inserted \u003cmark\u003e tags without first escaping the original content. Because the resulting value is used by an HTML-rendering sink, malicious markup contained in conversion data could be interpreted as HTML rather than displayed as text.\n\nThe fix introduces a shared highlightMatches() helper that first converts special characters such as \u003c, \u003e, \u0026, and quotes into HTML entities. Only after escaping does the code insert the application-controlled \u003cmark\u003e element used for search highlighting.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":5.1,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.00396,"percentile":0.34161,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-116","CWE-79"],"published":"2026-08-11T09:07:53Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:40Z","products":[{"vendor":"misp","product":"cti-transmute"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/MISP/cti-transmute/commit/ac495641ef3ca927676a73ba8f1bcdfd952413df","tags":["patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-73161","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9p42-c923-p9c9"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/73xxx/CVE-2026-73161.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/MISP/cti-transmute","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-73161","title":"cti-transmute Conversion Table Allows XSS via Unescaped Cell Content During Search Highlighting","description":"Affected versions of cti-transmute improperly handle conversion-table values passed through the search highlighting feature. The highlight() function previously returned the underlying text directly when no search query was supplied, or performed a regex replacement that inserted \u003cmark\u003e tags without first escaping the original content. Because the resulting value is used by an HTML-rendering sink, malicious markup contained in conversion data could be interpreted as HTML rather than displayed as text.\n\nThe fix introduces a shared highlightMatches() helper that first converts special characters such as \u003c, \u003e, \u0026, and quotes into HTML entities. Only after escaping does the code insert the application-controlled \u003cmark\u003e element used for search highlighting.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-11T09:07:53.955Z","modified":"2026-08-11T16:51:01.159Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":5.1,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-79","CWE-116"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T13:43:33.766176Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-55993","description":"Affected versions of cti-transmute improperly handle conversion-table values passed through the search highlighting feature. The highlight() function previously returned the underlying text directly when no search query was supplied, or performed a regex replacement that inserted \u003cmark\u003e tags without first escaping the original content. Because the resulting value is used by an HTML-rendering sink, malicious markup contained in conversion data could be interpreted as HTML rather than displayed as text.\n\nThe fix introduces a shared highlightMatches() helper that first converts special characters such as \u003c, \u003e, \u0026, and quotes into HTML entities. Only after escaping does the code insert the application-controlled \u003cmark\u003e element used for search highlighting.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-11T09:07:53Z","modified":"2026-08-11T16:51:01Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":5.1,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T18:01:59.926728Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-9p42-c923-p9c9","title":"Affected versions of cti-transmute improperly handle conversion-table values passed through the...","description":"Affected versions of cti-transmute improperly handle conversion-table values passed through the search highlighting feature. The highlight() function previously returned the underlying text directly when no search query was supplied, or performed a regex replacement that inserted \u003cmark\u003e tags without first escaping the original content. Because the resulting value is used by an HTML-rendering sink, malicious markup contained in conversion data could be interpreted as HTML rather than displayed as text.\n\nThe fix introduces a shared highlightMatches() helper that first converts special characters such as \u003c, \u003e, \u0026, and quotes into HTML entities. Only after escaping does the code insert the application-controlled \u003cmark\u003e element used for search highlighting.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-11T09:32:36Z","modified":"2026-08-11T09:32:42Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":5.1,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:10:17.025827Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-73161","description":"Affected versions of cti-transmute improperly handle conversion-table values passed through the search highlighting feature. The highlight() function previously returned the underlying text directly when no search query was supplied, or performed a regex replacement that inserted \u003cmark\u003e tags without first escaping the original content. Because the resulting value is used by an HTML-rendering sink, malicious markup contained in conversion data could be interpreted as HTML rather than displayed as text.\n\nThe fix introduces a shared highlightMatches() helper that first converts special characters such as \u003c, \u003e, \u0026, and quotes into HTML entities. Only after escaping does the code insert the application-controlled \u003cmark\u003e element used for search highlighting.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-11T09:17:15.163Z","modified":"2026-10-24T15:10:00.19Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":5.1,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-79","CWE-116"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:36.499002Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-73161","title":"cti-transmute Conversion Table Allows XSS via Unescaped Cell Content During Search Highlighting","description":"Affected versions of cti-transmute improperly handle conversion-table values passed through the search highlighting feature. The highlight() function previously returned the underlying text directly when no search query was supplied, or performed a regex replacement that inserted \u003cmark\u003e tags without first escaping the original content. Because the resulting value is used by an HTML-rendering sink, malicious markup contained in conversion data could be interpreted as HTML rather than displayed as text.\n\nThe fix introduces a shared highlightMatches() helper that first converts special characters such as \u003c, \u003e, \u0026, and quotes into HTML entities. Only after escaping does the code insert the application-controlled \u003cmark\u003e element used for search highlighting.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-11T09:07:53.955Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:40.142656366Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":5.1,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-116","CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:45:15.88521Z"}]}}