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.
Published: 2026-08-13
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title Serendipity 2.3.5 Reflected XSS via search clean-URL route
First Time appeared S9y
S9y serendipity
Weaknesses CWE-79
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:s9y:serendipity:2.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:s9y:serendipity:2.4.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:s9y:serendipity:2.4.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:s9y:serendipity:2.5.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:s9y:serendipity:2.6.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:s9y:serendipity:2.6.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products S9y
S9y serendipity
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-13T15:08:52.238Z

Reserved: 2026-08-13T11:17:25.160Z

Link: CVE-2026-73628

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-13T12:17:28.183

Modified: 2026-08-13T12:17:28.183

Link: CVE-2026-73628

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-13T13:00:04Z

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