CVE-2026-73161 (GCVE-0-2026-73161)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-11 09:07 – Updated: 2026-08-11 16:51
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
cti-transmute Conversion Table Allows XSS via Unescaped Cell Content During Search Highlighting
Summary
Affected versions of cti-transmute improperly handle conversion-table values passed through the search highlighting feature. The highlight() function previously returned the underlying text directly when no search query was supplied, or performed a regex replacement that inserted <mark> tags without first escaping the original content. Because the resulting value is used by an HTML-rendering sink, malicious markup contained in conversion data could be interpreted as HTML rather than displayed as text.
The fix introduces a shared highlightMatches() helper that first converts special characters such as <, >, &, and quotes into HTML entities. Only after escaping does the code insert the application-controlled <mark> element used for search highlighting.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-11 16:50 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/MISP/cti-transmute/commit/ac49… | patch |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MISP | cti-transmute |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 1.4.0
(semver)
|
guessed |
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