CVE-2026-44990

CriticalUpdated

Published: 12 June 2026

Published

12 June 2026

Modified

30 June 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 9.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS Score 0.0037 28.9th percentile

Risk Priority 70 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-44990 is a critical-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Redhat (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.3 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 28.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-36566

Vulnerability details

ApostropheCMS is an open-source Node.js content management system, and sanitize-html provides a simple HTML sanitizer with a clear API. Under the default configuration, versions of `sanitize-html` prior to 2.17.4 can turn attacker-controlled content inside a disallowed `xmp` element into live…

HTML or JavaScript. This is a sanitizer bypass in the default `disallowedTagsMode: 'discard'` path and can lead to stored XSS in applications that render sanitized output back to users. Version 2.17.4 patches the issue.

CWE(s): CWE-79

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

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T1059.007 JavaScript Execution

Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.

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Why these techniques?

Stored XSS via sanitizer bypass in public-facing CMS directly enables exploitation of the web app (T1190) and client-side JavaScript execution (T1059.007).

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