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CVE-2026-40472
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-04-23T16:16:25.753 · Last modified 2026-06-17T10:45:20.490

Summary

In hackage-server, user-controlled metadata from .cabal files are rendered into HTML href attributes without proper sanitization, enabling stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.

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