CVE-2026-120643
Received
Received - Intake
Cross-Site Scripting in Perl CGI Module
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-120643, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-11-04
Last updated on: 2026-11-04
Assigner: CPANSec
Description
Description
CGI versions from 4.62 before 5.00 for Perl allow cross-site scripting via a raw apostrophe in URLs returned by url and self_url.
Both pass the URL through URI's canonical method, which leaves an apostrophe in the path raw and decodes the %27 that query parameter escaping produces, so an apostrophe in the request path or a parameter appears raw in the result.
An application that places the URL in a single-quoted HTML attribute or JavaScript string is open to cross-site scripting.
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Affected Vendors & Products
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Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-79 | The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. |
