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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2023-26846

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenCATS v0.9.7 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the city parameter at opencats/index.php?m=candidates.

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CVE-2023-26846
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4 Nov 2026, 16:48 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2023-26846

core-osv · Original source

Published 11 Apr 2023, 00:00 UTC

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenCATS v0.9.7 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the city parameter at opencats/index.php?m=candidates.

osv:CVE-2023-26846
Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:37.451294435Z",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 504906,
  "published_at": "2023-04-11T00:00:00+00:00"
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