ShellCodeX vulnerability brief
MEDIUM
Received
CVE-2026-77643
A cross-site scripting vulnerability in queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc in Xapian xapian-core before 2.1.0 and before 1.4.32 exists due to incomplete HTML escaping by Xapian::MSet::snippet(). NOTE: this issue exists because of a missed corner case of CVE-2018-0499.
Published 20 Aug 2026, 22:18 UTC
Last modified 20 Aug 2026, 22:18 UTC
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Attack profile
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Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
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Affected products
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Weakness classification
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Source references
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