CVE-2026-21580 PUBLISHED

Assigner: atlassian
Reserved: 01.01.2026 Published: 18.08.2026 Updated: 18.08.2026

This Critical severity Stored XSS, PrivEsc (Privilege Escalation), and Security Misconfiguration vulnerability was introduced in versions 7.1.1, 7.4.0, 7.13.0, 7.17.0, 7.19.0, 8.0.0, 8.5.0, 8.9.0, 9.0.1, 9.1.0, 9.2.0, 9.3.1, 9.4.0, 9.5.1, 10.0.2, 10.1.0 and 10.2.0 of Confluence Data Center and Server.

This Stored XSS, PrivEsc (Privilege Escalation), and Security Misconfiguration vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.6, allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary HTML or JavaScript code on a victims browser, perform actions as a higher-privileged user, and to get into the system utilizing loopholes exposed from security best-practices being overlooked.

Atlassian recommends that Confluence Data Center and Server customers upgrade to latest version, if you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions: Confluence Data Center and Server 9.2: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 9.2.21

Confluence Data Center and Server 10.2: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 10.2.13

See the release notes ([https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-release-notes-327.html]). You can download the latest version of Confluence Data Center and Server from the download center ([https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives]).

This vulnerability was reported via our Bug Bounty program.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.6

Product Status

Vendor Atlassian
Product Confluence Data Center
Versions
  • Version 10.2.0 to 10.2.11 is affected
  • Version 10.1.0 to 10.1.2 is affected
  • Version 10.0.2 to 10.0.3 is affected
  • Version 9.5.1 to 9.5.4 is affected
  • Version 9.4.0 to 9.4.1 is affected
  • Version 9.3.1 to 9.3.2 is affected
  • Version 9.2.0 to 9.2.20 is affected
  • Version 9.1.0 to 9.1.1 is affected
  • Version 9.0.3 is affected
  • Version 8.9.6 to 8.9.8 is affected
  • Version 8.5.15 to 8.5.31 is affected
  • Version 7.19.27 to 7.19.30 is affected
  • Version 10.2.13 to 10.2.15 is unaffected
  • Version 9.2.21 to 9.2.23 is unaffected
Vendor Atlassian
Product Confluence Server
Versions
  • Version 8.5.15 to 8.5.31 is affected
  • Version 7.19.27 to 7.19.30 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • Stored XSS Stored XSS