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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2026-44228 EUVD-2026-46049

RT: Stored Cross-Site Scripting via insufficient template escaping

Published Jul 20, 2026 · Updated Jul 21, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

RT is an open source, enterprise-grade issue and ticket tracking system. Versions 6.0.0 and above, prior to 6.0.3, contain a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, where user-controlled data is rendered without proper HTML escaping. An authenticated user with permission to set the relevant data can inject JavaScript that executes when another RT user views the affected page. This issue has been fixed in version 6.0.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
bestpractical rt >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.3 —

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
Ubuntu 26.10 request-tracker5 No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS request-tracker5 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS request-tracker5 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS request-tracker5 No fix yet —

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