CVE-2026-43938 PUBLISHED

YAF.NET: Unauthenticated Stored Second-Order XSS in Admin Event Log via Reflected `User-Agent` Header

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 04.05.2026 Published: 12.05.2026 Updated: 12.05.2026

YetAnotherForum.NET (YAF.NET) is a C# ASP.NET forum. Prior to 4.0.5 and 3.2.12, the application's database logger (YAFNET.Core/Logger/DbLogger.cs) captures the incoming request's User-Agent header into a JObject, serializes it with JsonConvert, and stores the result in the EventLog.Description column whenever an event (e.g., an unhandled exception) is logged. The admin event-log page (YetAnotherForum.NET/Pages/Admin/EventLog.cshtml.cs) later deserializes that JSON in FormatStackTrace() and interpolates the UserAgent value directly into an HTML string with no encoding, and the Razor view EventLog.cshtml emits the result through @Html.Raw. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.5 and 3.2.12.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 8.1

Product Status

Vendor YAFNET
Product YAFNET
Versions
  • Version >= 4.0.0-beta.1, < 4.0.5 is affected
  • Version < 3.2.12 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') CWE
  • CWE-80: Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) CWE
  • CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output CWE