CVE-2026-21768 (GCVE-0-2026-21768)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-19 14:50 – Updated: 2026-06-19 14:50
VLAI
Title
HCL Verse for Android is susceptible to an injection vulnerability
Summary
The compose-rich-editor library (v1.0.0-rc14) used in HCL Verse for Android's rich text email composition fails to properly validate all HTML input thereby allowing malicious content to be executed in certain situations.
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper input validation
  • CWE-79 - Improper neutralization of input during web page generation ('cross-site scripting')
Assigner
HCL
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2026-06-19 14:44
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