CVE-2026-32986

Textpattern CMS 4.9.0: Second-Order XSS via Atom Feed Injection

State: Published
Severity: 5.1 Medium
Published: Mar 20, 2026
Updated: Jul 14, 2026
Reserved: Mar 17, 2026

Description

Textpattern CMS version 4.9.0 contains a second-order cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows attackers to inject malicious scripts by exploiting improper sanitization of user-supplied input in Atom feed XML elements. Attackers can embed unescaped payloads in parameters such as category that are reflected into Atom fields like and , which execute as JavaScript when feed readers or CMS aggregators consume the feed and insert content into the DOM using unsafe methods.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.1 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulnCheck
3.1	6.1 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-116 Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Textpattern CMSTextpattern	4.9.0Affected

References

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