CVE-2026-35600
MEDIUMVikunja has HTML Injection via Task Titles in Overdue Email Notifications
Title source: cnaDescription
Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Prior to 2.3.0, task titles are embedded directly into Markdown link syntax in overdue email notifications without escaping Markdown special characters. When rendered by goldmark and sanitized by bluemonday (which allows <a> and <img> tags), injected Markdown constructs produce phishing links and tracking pixels in legitimate notification emails. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.3.0.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
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https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/security/advisories/GHSA-45q4-x4r9-8fqj
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https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/pull/2580
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https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/commit/0f3730d045f20e261e3cdfc6d93c325653395b64
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https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/releases/tag/v2.3.0
Scores
CVSS v3
5.4
EPSS
0.0019
EPSS Percentile
9.3%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-79
Status
published
Products (3)
code.vikunja.io/api
0 - 2.3.0Go
go-vikunja/vikunja
< 2.3.0
vikunja/vikunja
< 2.3.0
Published
Apr 10, 2026
Tracked Since
Apr 10, 2026