Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in HumHub (CVE-2026-93769)
Summary
Cross-site scripting in HumHub (CVE-2026-93769). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
HumHub 1.18.5 is affected by a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that allows any user holding the delegated, non-system-administrator Manage Users permission (admin_manage_users) to inject persistent HTML/JavaScript into a Profile Field Category title.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-93769 has been found in HumHub.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "HumHub CVE-2026-93769" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-93769 (HumHub) — CWE-79
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) (CWE-79) exists in HumHub.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of HumHub.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'HumHub' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'HumHub' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
HumHubを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。