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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityDeferred

CVE-2026-42839

An authenticated ERPNext user with Item record edit permissions can persist arbitrary HTML/JavaScript in the item_name, description, or image fields of an Item and trigger unescaped rendering in the Point of Sale (POS) cart interface for every operator…

MEDIUM 4.8EPSS 0.26%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.26%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

An authenticated ERPNext user with Item record edit permissions can persist arbitrary HTML/JavaScript in the item_name, description, or image fields of an Item and trigger unescaped rendering in the Point of Sale (POS) cart interface for every operator who adds that item to a transaction.This issue affects ERPNext: 16.16.0.

CVSS 4.0
4.8 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS
0.26% probability · 18th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Source
help@fluidattacks.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.