Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-55466 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-55466 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-55466?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.7, published 10 July 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- snipe/snipe-it (Packagist) <= 8.6.1, ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=8.6.2.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-55466?
- Yes. snipe/snipe-it (Packagist): upgrade to 8.6.2 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-55466 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-55466?
- Check whether you run snipe/snipe-it (Packagist) 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.
How to fix
- snipe/snipe-it (Packagist): upgrade to 8.6.2 or later
composer require snipe/snipe-it:^8.6.2
Technical details
This is a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Snipe-IT's file upload and serving mechanism. The root cause is a logic gap in upload validation: the UploadFileRequest sanitizer only triggers for files detected as image/svg+xml by PHP's finfo utility, but allows XML and other document types through without sanitization. An attacker creates an XHTML file (which PHP's finfo identifies as text/xml rather than image/svg+xml), bypassing the SVG sanitization step. The file is stored raw with any embedded <script> tags intact. When served inline via the UploadedFilesController with Content-Disposition: inline, the browser treats it as an executable XHTML document and runs the JavaScript in the same origin. The existing StorageHelper::allowSafeInline() whitelist exists but is never invoked in the serve path. An attacker requires only assets.view and assets.files permissions (low-privilege) and the target user must visit the malicious file URL with inline=true parameter. Patch version 8.6.2 fixes this by implementing proper content-type validation and sanitization.
Affected products
- grokability snipe-it <= 8.6.1
Identifiers
- CVE-2026-55466
- GHSA-jhph-5q74-pmfx
Timeline
- 2026-06-24: disclosed
- 2026-08-28: advisory
- 2026: patched: Version 8.6.2 released