CVE-2026-2266 PUBLISHED

Improper neutralization of input vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed cross-site scripting via task list content and enabled arbitrary HTML injection

Assigner: GitHub_P
Reserved: 09.02.2026 Published: 10.03.2026 Updated: 11.03.2026

An improper neutralization of input vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed DOM-based cross-site scripting via task list content. The task list content extraction logic did not properly re-encode browser-decoded text nodes before rendering, allowing user-supplied HTML to be injected into the page. An authenticated attacker could craft malicious task list items in issues or pull requests to execute arbitrary scripts in the context of another user's browser session. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.20 and was fixed in versions 3.18.6 and 3.19.3. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.4

Product Status

Vendor GitHub
Product Enterprise Server
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3.18.0 to 3.18.5 (incl.)
  • affected from 3.19.0 to 3.19.2 (incl.)

Credits

  • André Storfjord Kristiansen finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-79 Improper neutralization of input during web page generation ('cross-site scripting') CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)