CVE-2026-43938
HIGHYAF.NET: Unauthenticated Stored Second-Order XSS in Admin Event Log via Reflected `User-Agent` Header
Title source: cnaDescription
YetAnotherForum.NET (YAF.NET) is a C# ASP.NET forum. Prior to 4.0.5 and 3.2.12, the application's database logger (YAFNET.Core/Logger/DbLogger.cs) captures the incoming request's User-Agent header into a JObject, serializes it with JsonConvert, and stores the result in the EventLog.Description column whenever an event (e.g., an unhandled exception) is logged. The admin event-log page (YetAnotherForum.NET/Pages/Admin/EventLog.cshtml.cs) later deserializes that JSON in FormatStackTrace() and interpolates the UserAgent value directly into an HTML string with no encoding, and the Razor view EventLog.cshtml emits the result through @Html.Raw. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.5 and 3.2.12.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
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https://github.com/YAFNET/YAFNET/security/advisories/GHSA-33gv-fc78-qgf5
Scores
CVSS v3
8.1
EPSS
0.0001
EPSS Percentile
2.1%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-116
CWE-79
CWE-80
Status
published
Products (4)
nuget/YAFNET.Core
0 - 3.2.12NuGet
nuget/YAFNET.Core
4.0.0-beta01 - 4.0.5NuGet
YAFNET/YAFNET
< 3.2.12
YAFNET/YAFNET
>= 4.0.0-beta.1, < 4.0.5
Published
May 12, 2026
Tracked Since
May 12, 2026