CVE-2026-42401 PUBLISHED

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Kibana Leading to Stored HTML Injection

Assigner: elastic
Reserved: 27.04.2026 Published: 28.05.2026 Updated: 28.05.2026

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (CWE-79) in Kibana can lead to stored HTML injection. A user with write access to an Elasticsearch index could persist crafted markup which, when subsequently rendered through an affected Kibana view by another user, was not sufficiently sanitized. Successful exploitation could result in unauthorized UI manipulation and outbound network requests issued from the viewing user's browser session.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.1

Product Status

Vendor Elastic
Product Kibana
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 9.0.0 to 9.3.4 (incl.)
  • affected from 8.0.0 to 8.19.15 (incl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-137 Parameter Injection