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CVE-2022-27920

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

libkiwix 10.0.0 and 10.0.1 allows XSS in the built-in webserver functionality via the search suggestions URL parameter. This is fixed in 10.1.0.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 35
• Kiwix Libkiwix: 10.0.0, 10.0.1

References

• https://github.com/kiwix/libkiwix/issues/728
• https://github.com/kiwix/libkiwix/pull/721
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KD4KX5N2PGMIOQR2IZWEUTZCCTPWU3EJ/
• https://github.com/kiwix/libkiwix/issues/728
• https://github.com/kiwix/libkiwix/pull/721
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KD4KX5N2PGMIOQR2IZWEUTZCCTPWU3EJ/

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