CVE-2026-72574 PUBLISHED

picocms Pico - Host Header Injection Enables Script Source Hijacking

Assigner: TuranSec
Reserved: 10.08.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

A host header injection vulnerability in picocms/Pico through 2.1.4 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to control the origin of JavaScript and CSS assets loaded by the default theme. When base_url is unset (the default), Pico::getBaseUrl in lib/Pico.php builds the base URL from unvalidated Host, X-Forwarded-Host, X-Forwarded-Proto, and X-Forwarded-Port request headers.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.1

Product Status

Vendor picocms
Product Pico
Versions Default: unknown
  • affected from 0 to 2.1.4 (incl.)

Credits

  • Nurmurodov Asadbek finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-644: Improper Neutralization of HTTP Headers for Scripting Syntax CWE