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CVE-2026-27469: Isso affected by Stored XSS via comment website field

February 24, 2026

This is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the website and author comment fields. The website field was HTML-escaped using quote=False, which left single and double quotes unescaped. Since the frontend inserts the website value directly into a single-quoted href attribute via string concatenation, a single quote in the URL breaks out of the attribute context, allowing injection of arbitrary event handlers (e.g. onmouseover, onclick).

The same escaping was missing entirely from the user-facing comment edit endpoint (PUT /id/) and the moderation edit endpoint (POST /id//edit/).

Any visitor to a page embedding isso comments is impacted. No authentication or interaction beyond mouse movement is required to trigger a payload — an attacker can post a comment anonymously (moderation is off by default) with a crafted website URL, and the payload persists in the database and fires on every page load. With the full-page invisible overlay technique described in the report, the victim only needs to move their mouse.

References

  • docs.python.org/3/library/html.html
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-9fww-8cpr-q66r
  • github.com/isso-comments/isso
  • github.com/isso-comments/isso/commit/0afbfe0691ee237963e8fb0b2ee01c9e55ca2144
  • github.com/isso-comments/isso/security/advisories/GHSA-9fww-8cpr-q66r
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-27469

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.13.2

Fixed versions

  • 0.13.2

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.13.2 or above.

Impact 6.1 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
  • CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Source file

pypi/isso/CVE-2026-27469.yml

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