Cyber Posture

CVE-2026-42612

High

Published: 11 May 2026

Published
11 May 2026
Modified
12 May 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 8.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0003 9.5th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-42612 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 9.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Threat & Defense Details

Likely Mitigating ControlsAI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

NVD Description

Grav is a file-based Web platform. Prior to 2.0.0-beta.2, a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in getgrav/grav allows publisher-level accounts to execute arbitrary JavaScript. The issue arises from a blacklist bypass in the detectXss() function when handling unquoted HTML event…

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attributes. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.0.0-beta.2.

Deeper analysisAI

Automated synthesis unavailable for this CVE.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-79

References