CVE-2026-19434: Stored Cross-site Scripting in Pentestify finding severity field

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v4.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-08-11 · updated 2026-10-23
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site Scripting in the finding renderer in maalfer Pentestify before 2.3.1 allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the application origin via HTML markup stored in a finding's severity field, which the frontend interpolates unescaped into class and style attributes when rendering the report.

Affected products

maalfer Pentestify: before 2.3.1 — fixed in 2.3.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: maalfer Pentestify 2.3.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/ccyl13/Pentestify/commit/8e81053d490f0ba188543b7de3e5edf87112291a
https://github.com/ccyl13/Pentestify/releases/tag/v2.3.2
https://secur0.com/en/cna/cve-list/cve-2026-19434-stored-xss-in-pentestify-finding-severity-field

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