Medium
Stored Cross-site Scripting in Pentestify Markdown renderer via unescaped quotes
Type: advisorySources: OSV
Cross-site Scripting in the Markdown renderer in maalfer Pentestify before 2.3.2 allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the application origin via a Markdown link whose URL contains a double quote, which closes the anchor's href attribute because the renderer's sanitization step does not escape quotes
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-19744
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 15:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Stored Cross-site Scripting in Pentestify Markdown renderer via unescaped quotes
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 13 Aug 2026, 15:41 UTC
Cross-site Scripting in the Markdown renderer in maalfer Pentestify before 2.3.2 allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the application origin via a Markdown link whose URL contains a double quote, which closes the anchor's href attribute because the renderer's sanitization step does not escape quotes
osv:CVE-2026-19744
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-19744",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "Stored Cross-site Scripting in Pentestify Markdown renderer via unescaped quotes",
"summary": "Cross-site Scripting in the Markdown renderer in maalfer Pentestify before 2.3.2 allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the application origin via a Markdown link whose URL contains a double quote, which closes the anchor's href attribute because the renderer's sanitization step does not escape quotes",
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:36.896829576Z",
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"https://github.com/ccyl13/Pentestify/releases/tag/v2.3.2",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-19744",
"https://github.com/ccyl13/Pentestify/commit/272f7d6033fd93fbc858835f55d616157041f123",
"https://github.com/ccyl13/Pentestify",
"https://secur0.com/en/cna/cve-list/cve-2026-19744-stored-xss-in-pentestify-markdown-renderer-via-unescaped-quotes"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2026-08-13T15:41:00.862+00:00"
}