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High · 8.1 CVE-2026-43938 EUVD-2026-29480GHSA-33gv-fc78-qgf5

YAF.NET: Unauthenticated Stored Second-Order XSS in Admin Event Log via Reflected `User-Agent` Header

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

Description

YetAnotherForum.NET (YAF.NET) is a C# ASP.NET forum. Prior to 4.0.5 and 3.2.12, the application's database logger (YAFNET.Core/Logger/DbLogger.cs) captures the incoming request's User-Agent header into a JObject, serializes it with JsonConvert, and stores the result in the EventLog.Description column whenever an event (e.g., an unhandled exception) is logged. The admin event-log page (YetAnotherForum.NET/Pages/Admin/EventLog.cshtml.cs) later deserializes that JSON in FormatStackTrace() and interpolates the UserAgent value directly into an HTML string with no encoding, and the Razor view EventLog.cshtml emits the result through @Html.Raw. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.5 and 3.2.12.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
YAFNET YAFNET >= 4.0.0-beta.1, < 4.0.5, < 3.2.12 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
NuGet YAFNET.Core >= 4.0.0-beta01, < 4.0.5 4.0.5 GHSA-33gv-fc78-qgf5
NuGet YAFNET.Core < 3.2.12 3.2.12 GHSA-33gv-fc78-qgf5

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