Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-37503

XSS in V2Board ≤ 1.7.4

Public PoCXSS
Published
01 May 2026
Modified
11 May 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 6.9
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0019 9th percentile
Risk Priority 40 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-37503 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in V2Board V2Board. Its CVSS base score is 6.9 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked at the 9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-15 (Information Output Filtering) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in V2Board thru 1.7.4. The custom_html field in theme configuration is rendered using Blade unescaped output in public/theme/v2board/dashboard.blade.php. An admin can inject arbitrary JavaScript via the saveThemeConfig API. All site visitors execute the payload, enabling cookie theft,…

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session hijacking, or phishing.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access
An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.
Why these techniques?

Stored XSS enables arbitrary JS execution in visitor browsers (T1059.007) and directly facilitates web session cookie theft for hijacking (T1539).

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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CVE-2023-49270Shared CWE-79
CVE-2023-4978Shared CWE-79
CVE-2023-5302Shared CWE-79
CVE-2023-5891Shared CWE-79
CVE-2023-49488Shared CWE-79

Affected Assets

v2board
v2board
≤ 1.7.4

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation
  • SI-15 Information Output Filtering
  • SC-7 Boundary Protection
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)
  • SC-7 Boundary Protection
Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V1.1.2
  • V1.3.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Validates/sanitizes the custom_html value on saveThemeConfig before storage so that script payloads are rejected or neutralized.

prevent

Filters or encodes the custom_html field on output in dashboard.blade.php so that injected JavaScript cannot execute for visitors.

preventdetect

Boundary protection devices (WAF) can inspect and block requests containing XSS patterns targeting the theme configuration API.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly target introduction of XSS via coding standards/testing (mostly), yet the single broad outcome leaves many specific neutralization vectors unaddressed (partial).

PR.PS-02 partial match
prevents

Patching and EOL replacement can remediate known XSS instances in libraries or frameworks (partial) but do nothing to enforce input neutralization in application code (none).

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

detects

Secure-coding testing and automated code-analysis tools are applied to detect improper neutralization of script-related content during web-page generation.

prevents

Knowledge exchange on emerging attack techniques and patches reduces the likelihood that cross-site scripting flaws remain unaddressed in deployed applications.

prevents

Operational indicators of compromise for web-application attacks can be incorporated into WAF or input-filtering rules, lowering the likelihood that unsanitized data reaches the browser.

prevents

Requiring language-specific secure-coding standards and automated scanning during the SDLC catches missing output encoding or improper neutralization of untrusted data before the software reaches production.

prevents

Secure-coding standards, SAST scans and removal of insecure code samples together eliminate the failure to neutralize script content that produces cross-site scripting flaws.

none

Webpage malware scanning and block-listing of known malicious sites reduce the likelihood that reflected or stored script payloads reach a user’s browser.

References