Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-27458

Kovah LinkAce

LinkAce: Stored XSS in Atom Feed via CDATA Escape in List Description

CVSS 4.0
8.7High

Official description

LinkAce is a self-hosted archive to collect website links. Versions 2.4.2 and below have a Stored Cross-site Scripting vulnerability through the Atom feed endpoint for lists (/lists/feed). An authenticated user can inject a CDATA-breaking payload into a list description that escapes the XML CDATA section, injects a native SVG element into the Atom XML document, and executes arbitrary JavaScript directly in the browser when the feed URL is visited. No RSS reader or additional rendering context is required — the browser's native XML parser processes the injected SVG and fires the onload event handler. This vulnerability exists because the lists feed template outputs list descriptions using Blade's raw syntax ({!! !!}) without sanitization inside a CDATA block. The critical detail is that because the output sits inside <![CDATA[...]]>, an attacker can inject the sequence ]]> to close the CDATA section prematurely, then inject arbitrary XML/SVG elements that the browser parses and executes natively as part of the Atom document. This issue has been fixed in version 2.4.3.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
8.7High 4.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (GitHub_M) CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Kovah LinkAce < 2.4.3 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

2
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Details

Published
2026-02-21
Last updated
2026-02-24
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
GitHub_M

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.25%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
16.6%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
Proof of concept
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-80
    Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)