CVE-2026-73628 (GCVE-0-2026-73628)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 11:28 – Updated: 2026-09-30 17:20
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Serendipity 2.3.5 Reflected XSS via search clean-URL route
Summary
Serendipity versions >= 2.3.5 and <= 2.6.0 contain a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in the search clean-URL route (/search/<term>). 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.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-13 15:08 UTC
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/s9y/Serendipity/security/advis… | vendor-advisory |
| https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/serendipity-… | third-party-advisory |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| s9y | Serendipity |
Affected:
2.3.5 , ≤ 2.6.0
(semver)
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Date Public
2026-07-26 00:00
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