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Fixed in 2.6.1.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":5.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00263,"percentile":0.1818,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2026-08-13T11:28:26Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:41Z","products":[{"vendor":"s9y","product":"serendipity"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/s9y/Serendipity/security/advisories/GHSA-6c2x-mjmq-vx4q","tags":["vendor-advisory","exploit","advisory"]},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/serendipity-reflected-xss-via-search-clean-url-route","tags":["third-party-advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-73628","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4g8w-wg6x-gvqc"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/73xxx/CVE-2026-73628.json","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-73628","title":"Serendipity 2.3.5 Reflected XSS via search clean-URL route","description":"Serendipity versions \u003e= 2.3.5 and \u003c= 2.6.0 contain a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in the search clean-URL route (/search/\u003cterm\u003e). 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In include/functions_routing.inc.php serveSearch(), the sanitisation pipeline runs urldecode() after HTML-encoding, so a single URL-encoded HTML payload survives strip_tags() and htmlspecialchars() and is then decoded back into live HTML in the page. A crafted search link can execute arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser. Fixed in 2.6.1.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-13T11:28:26Z","modified":"2026-09-30T17:20:28Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":5.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T17:27:48.075372Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-4g8w-wg6x-gvqc","title":"Serendipity versions \u003e= 2.3.5 and \u003c= 2.6.0 contain a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability...","description":"Serendipity versions \u003e= 2.3.5 and \u003c= 2.6.0 contain a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in the search clean-URL route (/search/\u003cterm\u003e). 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