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Medium · 4.8 CVE-2026-48823 EUVD-2026-37794

Shaarli has Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Tags Search

Published Jun 17, 2026 · Updated Jun 18, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Shaarli is a personal bookmarking service. Versions 0.16.1 and prior contain a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the tag filtering functionality of Shaarli. An authenticated user can inject arbitrary JavaScript into the tags field when creating a bookmark (Shaare). The malicious payload is stored and later executed when users interact with the "Filter by tag" search feature on the homepage. User-supplied input in the tags field is not properly sanitized or output-escaped before being rendered in the tag filtering interface. When a bookmark is created with a malicious payload inside the tag field, the payload is stored in the database. Later, when a user searches using the "Filter by tag" functionality on the homepage, the application renders matching tags dynamically. If the tag value contains HTML with JavaScript event handlers, it is injected into the DOM. This impacts anyone interacting with the "Filter by tag" search functionality, administrators and privileged users. This issue has been fixed in version 0.16.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
shaarli Shaarli < 0.16.2 —

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
Debian 13 shaarli No fix yet —
Debian 12 shaarli No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS shaarli No fix yet —

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