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CVE-2026-94488

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-21 · updated 2026-09-22
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Telegram Desktop before 6.9.4 allows XSS in the HTML exporter. (The first fixed stable version is 7.0.1.) This occurs in button.text.toUtf8 in export_output_html.cpp. Exploitation cannot occur unless HTML export was used by a victim. However, the exploit payload can be exported if a message were forwarded into a group by a member (it is not necessary for the message author to be a member of a group).

Affected products

• Telegram Desktop: from 4.15.1 before 6.9.4 — fixed in 6.9.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Telegram Desktop 6.9.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://expatch.com/writeups/telegram-html-export-xss.html
• https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/v6.9.3/Telegram/SourceFiles/export/output/export_output_html.cpp
• https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/commit/52c779bffa8dde3c5c09826add2607328fae0924
• https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/commit/8457d13aa795fadf99c955d2a04f00ebc3c59df9
• https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/releases/tag/v6.9.4
• https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/telegram-desktop-flaw-lets-hidden.html

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