CVE-2026-44282: decidim-elections: Election question titles allow stored script execution

September 9, 2026

A low-privilege process-scoped admin who can manage elections can store arbitrary HTML in the question statement/body without sanitization, and the public elections UI renders that value unsafely.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-9mvp-w4rr-5c6x
github.com/decidim/decidim/pull/16659
github.com/decidim/decidim/security/advisories/GHSA-9mvp-w4rr-5c6x
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44282

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