CVE-2026-50190 PUBLISHED

Shaarli vulnerable to stored XSS via raw bookmark title in document <title> element on public permalink page

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 03.06.2026 Published: 20.08.2026 Updated: 20.08.2026

Shaarli is a personal bookmarking service. Versions prior to 0.16.3 are vulnerable to stored XSS in application/front/controller/visitor/BookmarkListController.php. The permalink handler concatenates the raw $bookmark->getTitle() into the pagetitle template variable and the RainTPL template emits it into the document <title> element without HTML escaping. A bookmark title containing </title><script>...</script> closes the document title early and the injected script executes in the Shaarli origin for any visitor of /shaare/{hash}. Shaarli's metadata fetcher copies a remote page's <title> text verbatim into the local bookmark title, so an attacker who hosts an attacker-controlled URL and convinces an administrator to bookmark it plants the payload with no further interaction — and the resulting permalink fires for every visitor including the administrator on first save, providing a one-shot administrator account takeover. Version 0.16.3 fixes the issue.

Metrics

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

Product Status

Vendor shaarli
Product Shaarli
Versions
  • Version < 0.16.3 is affected

References

Problem Types

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