CVE-2026-55696

PrivateBin: Stored Cross-Side-Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in attachment download link via dangerous MIME types with required user-interaction

State
Published
Severity
4.3 Medium
Published
Aug 28, 2026
Updated
Aug 31, 2026
Reserved
Jun 17, 2026

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Description

PrivateBin is an online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Prior to 2.0.5, AttachmentViewer.setAttachment in js/privatebin.js uses getAttachmentMimeType to accept attacker-controlled MIME types and uses getBlobUrl to create a same-origin blob before setting attachmentLink's href for the Download attachment link. The SVG-only sanitization branch updates only the preview blob, so text/html, image/svg, application/xhtml+xml, and text/xml attachments can remain active in the download blob. On an instance with fileupload = true and a weakened, stripped, or absent Content Security Policy, an anonymous attacker can create such an attachment, and a victim who opens the link in a new tab causes inline JavaScript to execute in the PrivateBin origin. The script can read origin-scoped local storage and issue same-origin requests, including requests to applications co-hosted on the same domain. This issue is fixed in version 2.0.5.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
  • CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
PrivateBinPrivateBin
  • < 2.0.5Affected

References

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