Description
ApostropheCMS is an open-source Node.js content management system. Versions 4.28.0 and prior contain a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in SEO-related fields (SEO Title and Meta Description), where user-controlled input is rendered without proper output encoding into HTML contexts including <title> tags, <meta> attributes, and JSON-LD structured data. An attacker can inject a payload such as "></title><script>alert(1)</script> to break out of the intended HTML context and execute arbitrary JavaScript in the browser of any authenticated user who views the affected page. This can be leveraged to perform authenticated API requests, access sensitive data such as usernames, email addresses, and roles via internal APIs, and exfiltrate it to an attacker-controlled server. This issue has been fixed in version 4.29.0.
Problem types
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
Product status
References
github.com/...trophe/security/advisories/GHSA-855c-r2vq-c292
github.com/...ommit/0e57dd07a56ae1ba1e3af646ba026db4d0ab5bb3
github.com/Chittu13/cve-research/tree/main/CVE-2026-35569