CVE-2026-73259

Published Aug 20, 2026

Last updated 4 days ago

Overview

Description
Mongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Prior to 7.22, a remote attacker can send a crafted percent-encoded request path to a deployment using MG_ENABLE_DIRLIST and persuade a user to visit it. The mg_http_serve_dir() and listdir() path in src/http.c places the decoded request URI into the title and h1 elements without HTML entity encoding. The resulting reflected cross-site scripting executes in the Mongoose origin and can expose session data or perform actions as the victim. This issue is fixed in version 7.22.
Source
security-advisories@github.com
NVD status
Received

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
5.4
Impact score
2.5
Exploitability score
2.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

security-advisories@github.com
CWE-79

Social media

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