CVE-2026-120648
Received
Received - Intake
HTML Injection in Perl CGI Versions Before 5.00
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-120648, 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 before 5.00 for Perl allow HTML injection via text containing --> in comment.
Arguments are placed between <!-- and --> without escaping, so text containing --> closes the comment early.
An application that passes request data to comment can be made to inject HTML into the page.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Currently, no data is known.
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. |
