CVE-2026-40470 PUBLISHED

Hackage package and doc upload stored XSS vulnerability

Assigner: redhat-cnalr
Reserved: 13.04.2026 Published: 23.04.2026 Updated: 23.04.2026

A critical XSS vulnerability affected hackage-server and hackage.haskell.org. HTML and JavaScript files provided in source packages or via the documentation upload facility were served as-is on the main hackage.haskell.org domain. As a consequence, when a user with latent HTTP credentials browses to the package pages or documentation uploaded by a malicious package maintainer, their session can be hijacked to upload packages or documentation, amend maintainers or other package metadata, or perform any other action the user is authorised to do.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS Score: 9.9

Product Status

Package Collection https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hackage-server
Package Name hackage-server
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.1 to 0.6 (excl.)

References

Problem Types

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