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CVE-2026-75626: SpiderFoot Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Correlation Titles

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-18 · updated 2026-10-22
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

SpiderFoot fails to HTML-escape correlation titles built from external scan data sources including server banners and metadata. Attackers can inject malicious HTML elements with event handlers into correlation results that execute scripts in the operator's browser when the correlations view is opened, potentially stealing API keys.

Affected products

• smicallef spiderfoot: through 4.0

References

• https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot
• https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot/blob/master/spiderfoot/correlation.py
• https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot/issues/2012
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/spiderfoot-stored-cross-site-scripting-via-correlation-titles
• https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot/issues/2012

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