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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-42455 EUVD-2026-28872

LinkWarden: Stored XSS via Client-Side Archive Upload (Unsanitized HTML served from same origin)

Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 12, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Linkwarden is a self-hosted, open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and archive webpages. In versions 2.14.0 and prior, the archive upload endpoint (POST /api/v1/archives/[linkId]?format=4) accepts HTML files (text/html) without sanitizing JavaScript content. When the archive is later accessed via GET /api/v1/archives/[linkId]?format=4, the HTML is served with Content-Type: text/html from the Linkwarden origin, without any Content-Security-Policy header. This allows arbitrary JavaScript execution in the context of the authenticated Linkwarden sessio. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
linkwarden linkwarden <= 2.14.0 —

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