CVE-2026-73628

Description

Serendipity versions >= 2.3.5 and <= 2.6.0 contain a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in the search clean-URL route (/search/<term>). In include/functions_routing.inc.php serveSearch(), the sanitisation pipeline runs urldecode() after HTML-encoding, so a single URL-encoded HTML payload survives strip_tags() and htmlspecialchars() and is then decoded back into live HTML in the page. A crafted search link can execute arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser. Fixed in 2.6.1.

CVSS Vector

References

• https://github.com/s9y/Serendipity/security/advisories/GHSA-6c2x-mjmq-vx4q
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/serendipity-reflected-xss-via-search-clean-url-route
• https://github.com/s9y/Serendipity/security/advisories/GHSA-6c2x-mjmq-vx4q