CVE-2026-40470

CRITICAL

Hackage package and doc upload stored XSS vulnerability

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

A critical XSS vulnerability affected hackage-server and hackage.haskell.org. HTML and JavaScript files provided in source packages or via the documentation upload facility were served as-is on the main hackage.haskell.org domain. As a consequence, when a user with latent HTTP credentials browses to the package pages or documentation uploaded by a malicious package maintainer, their session can be hijacked to upload packages or documentation, amend maintainers or other package metadata, or perform any other action the user is authorised to do.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 9.9
EPSS 0.0031
EPSS Percentile 22.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Published Apr 23, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 23, 2026