CVE-2026-120648

Severity not reported

Data quality: partial. Some fields were not provided by the source.

CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow HTML injection via text containing --> in comment.

CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow HTML injection via text containing --> in comment. Arguments are placed between without escaping, so text containing --> closes the comment early. An application that passes request data to comment can be made to inject HTML into the page.

CVSS

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Not reported by the source

Timeline (UTC)

Published: 2026-11-04 00:17

Modified: 2026-11-04 18:42

NVD status: Deferred

Last synced 7 hours ago

Verified against the source API 2026-11-04 19:05 UTC

Exploitation

Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)

Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.

References

https://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/commit/6a17eb84703d84bca86b0079f5870ca9c921ffd4.patch 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
https://metacpan.org/release/LEEJO/CGI-4.72/source/lib/CGI.pm 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
https://metacpan.org/release/LEEJO/CGI-5.00/changes 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-04 19:05 UTC · record ↗

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