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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2026-35600 EUVD-2026-21427GHSA-45q4-x4r9-8fqjGO-2026-5111

Vikunja has HTML Injection via Task Titles in Overdue Email Notifications

Published Apr 10, 2026 · Updated Apr 14, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Prior to 2.3.0, task titles are embedded directly into Markdown link syntax in overdue email notifications without escaping Markdown special characters. When rendered by goldmark and sanitized by bluemonday (which allows <a> and <img> tags), injected Markdown constructs produce phishing links and tracking pixels in legitimate notification emails. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.3.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
go-vikunja vikunja < 2.3.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go code.vikunja.io/api < 2.3.0 2.3.0 GHSA-45q4-x4r9-8fqj
Go code.vikunja.io/api all versions — GO-2026-5111

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