ubuntu-cve-2026-48822
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Shaarli is a personal bookmarking service. Versions 0.16.1 and prior contain a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Markdown-to-HTML conversion process used in the Bookmark Description field. An authenticated user can inject a malicious javascript: URI inside a Markdown link. The vulnerability originates in the filterProtocols method within BookmarkMarkdownFormatter.php.This method attempts to sanitize Markdown links by filtering dangerous protocols (such as javascript:) before rendering. It uses the following regular expression: (#]((.*?))#is). This regex is designed to detect inline Markdown links, but it fails to detect Markdown reference-style links because reference-style links are resolved by the Markdown parser after preprocessing. The filterProtocols method never inspects the actual URL used in these references and as a result, an attacker can supply a javascript: URI inside a reference definition. This issue has been fixed in version 0.16.2.
{
"affected": [
{
"ecosystem_specific": {
"binaries": [
{
"binary_name": "shaarli",
"binary_version": "0.0.42~beta~dfsg1-2ubuntu1"
}
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
"name": "shaarli",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/shaarli@0.0.42~beta~dfsg1-2ubuntu1?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
],
"versions": [
"0.0.42~beta~dfsg1-2",
"0.0.42~beta~dfsg1-2ubuntu1"
]
}
],
"aliases": [],
"details": "Shaarli is a personal bookmarking service. Versions 0.16.1 and prior contain a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Markdown-to-HTML conversion process used in the Bookmark Description field. An authenticated user can inject a malicious javascript: URI inside a Markdown link. The vulnerability originates in the filterProtocols method within BookmarkMarkdownFormatter.php.This method attempts to sanitize Markdown links by filtering dangerous protocols (such as javascript:) before rendering. It uses the following regular expression: (#]\\((.*?)\\)#is). This regex is designed to detect inline Markdown links, but it fails to detect Markdown reference-style links because reference-style links are resolved by the Markdown parser after preprocessing. The filterProtocols method never inspects the actual URL used in these references and as a result, an attacker can supply a javascript: URI inside a reference definition. This issue has been fixed in version 0.16.2.",
"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-48822",
"modified": "2026-06-24T09:03:09Z",
"published": "2026-06-17T20:17:00Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-48822"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48822"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/security/advisories/GHSA-2hgr-63wv-x462"
}
],
"related": [],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "medium",
"type": "Ubuntu"
}
],
"upstream": [
"CVE-2026-48822"
]
}
Sightings
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