CVE-2026-33683: AVideo vulnerable to Stored XSS via html_entity_decode() Reversing xss_esc() Sanitization in Channel About Field

March 25, 2026

A sanitization order-of-operations flaw in the user profile “about” field allows any registered user to inject arbitrary JavaScript that executes when other users visit their channel page. The xss_esc() function entity-encodes input before strip_specific_tags() can match dangerous HTML tags, and html_entity_decode() on output reverses the encoding, restoring the raw malicious HTML.

References

github.com/WWBN/AVideo
github.com/WWBN/AVideo/commit/7cfdc380dae1e56bbb5de581470d9e9957445df0
github.com/WWBN/AVideo/security/advisories/GHSA-ghx5-7jjg-q2j7
github.com/advisories/GHSA-ghx5-7jjg-q2j7
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33683

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