Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-85196 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-85196 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-85196?
- Informational severity, published 14 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Regular Labs Articles Anywhere < 20.0.0; Regular Labs Users Anywhere < 2.1.0.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-85196?
- 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-2026-85196 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-85196?
- Check whether you run Regular Labs Articles Anywhere or Regular Labs Users Anywhere 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
This is a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Articles Anywhere and Users Anywhere Joomla extensions. The root cause is that these extensions return request-input data values without context-aware sanitization—Joomla's string filter does not provide the same safety for HTML text, HTML attributes, and URLs. An attacker can craft a malicious URL containing executable script or event attributes that execute in a victim's browser when the extension processes the unsanitized request parameter. The vulnerability is reflected (not stored), so exploitation requires social engineering or URL injection. No special authentication is required.
Affected products
- Regular Labs Articles Anywhere < 20.0.0
- Regular Labs Users Anywhere < 2.1.0
Timeline
- 2026-09-14: disclosed