Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-36472 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-36472 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-36472?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.2, published 21 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- CuteNews 2.1.2.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-36472?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-36472 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-36472?
- Check whether you run CuteNews at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists due to improper sanitization of the __referer parameter on the msg_info page, which renders unsanitized user input as clickable links. An unauthenticated attacker can inject a javascript: URI scheme that executes when clicked by an authenticated user, gaining arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's authenticated context.
Affected products
- CuteNews CuteNews 2.1.2
Timeline
- 2026-09-21: disclosed