Description

In hackage-server, user-controlled metadata from .cabal files are rendered into HTML href attributes without proper sanitization, enabling stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-04-23T15:00:09.063Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-23T16:22:06.841Z

Source :

redhat-cnalr
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-40472 vulnerability.

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