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High · 8.6 CVE-2026-50190 EUVD-2026-63551

Shaarli vulnerable to stored XSS via raw bookmark title in document <title> element on public permalink page

Published Aug 20, 2026 · Updated Aug 20, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Shaarli is a personal bookmarking service. Versions prior to 0.16.3 are vulnerable to stored XSS in `application/front/controller/visitor/BookmarkListController.php`. The `permalink` handler concatenates the raw `$bookmark->getTitle()` into the `pagetitle` template variable and the RainTPL template emits it into the document `<title>` element without HTML escaping. A bookmark title containing `</title><script>...</script>` closes the document title early and the injected script executes in the Shaarli origin for any visitor of `/shaare/{hash}`. Shaarli's metadata fetcher copies a remote page's `<title>` text verbatim into the local bookmark title, so an attacker who hosts an attacker-controlled URL and convinces an administrator to bookmark it plants the payload with no further interaction — and the resulting permalink fires for every visitor including the administrator on first save, providing a one-shot administrator account takeover. Version 0.16.3 fixes the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
shaarli Shaarli < 0.16.3 —

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
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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