{"id":"CVE-2026-48940","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-48940","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:14:56.505Z","title":"A Joomla user with K2 \"create item\" rights (Author tier by default) can submit an article whose `embedVideo` POST field contains a raw `<script>` tag; K2 stores it verbatim and renders it unescaped to any visitor of the article page.","description":"A Joomla user with K2 \"create item\" rights (Author tier by default) can submit an article whose `embedVideo` POST field contains a raw `<script>` tag; K2 stores it verbatim and renders it unescaped to any visitor of the article page.","published":"2026-06-25T16:16:36.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-25T22:10:00.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"security@joomla.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":3.4,"severity":"LOW","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["joomlaworks/k2"],"epss":{"score":0.00284,"percentile":0.20739,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.28%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.getk2.org/","tags":["Product"],"source":"security@joomla.org"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48940","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}