{"id":"CVE-2026-73161","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-73161","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:11:14.569Z","title":"Affected versions of cti-transmute improperly handle conversion-table values passed through the search highlighting feature.","description":"Affected versions of cti-transmute improperly handle conversion-table values passed through the search highlighting feature. The highlight() function previously returned the underlying text directly when no search query was supplied, or performed a regex replacement that inserted <mark> tags without first escaping the original content. Because the resulting value is used by an HTML-rendering sink, malicious markup contained in conversion data could be interpreted as HTML rather than displayed as text.\n\nThe fix introduces a shared highlightMatches() helper that first converts special characters such as <, >, &, and quotes into HTML entities. Only after escaping does the code insert the application-controlled <mark> element used for search highlighting.","published":"2026-08-11T09:17:15.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-24T15:10:00.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"5a6e4751-2f3f-4070-9419-94fb35b644e8","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":5.1,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/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"},"cwe":["CWE-79","CWE-116"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00396,"percentile":0.33581,"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 (0.40%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/MISP/cti-transmute/commit/ac495641ef3ca927676a73ba8f1bcdfd952413df","source":"5a6e4751-2f3f-4070-9419-94fb35b644e8"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-73161","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."}