CVE-2026-41241

pretalx: Stored cross-site scripting in organiser search typeahead

State: Published
Severity: 8.7 High
Published: Apr 23, 2026
Updated: Apr 23, 2026
Reserved: Apr 18, 2026

Description

pretalx is a conference planning tool. Prior to 2026.1.0, The organiser search in the pretalx backend rendered submission titles, speaker display names, and user names/emails into the result dropdown using innerHTML string interpolation. Any user who controls one of those fields (which includes any registered user whose display name is looked up by an administrator) could include HTML or JavaScript that would execute in an organiser's browser when the organiser's search query matched the malicious record. This vulnerability is fixed in 2026.1.0.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.7 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
pretalxpretalx	< 2026.1.0Affected

References

https://github.com/pretalx/pretalx/security/advisories/GHSA-cjcx-jfp2-f7m2

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