VulnerabilityDeferred

CVE-2026-85485

Error messages that contain attacker-influenced content such as rejected field values could embed JavaScript in rendered pages.

MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 0.21%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.21%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

HTML::FormHandler versions before 0.410002 for Perl render some error messages into HTML without escaping. The Table form layout and the Bootstrap 2 and 3 wrappers splice each error string straight into the surrounding markup. Version 0.410000, the fix for CVE-2026-19872, escaped the equivalent values in the other layouts and wrappers, and 0.410002 extended that to these three. Error messages that contain attacker-influenced content such as rejected field values could embed JavaScript in rendered pages.

CVSS 3.1: 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS: 0.21% probability · 11th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-79
Source: 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e

References

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