======================================================================== CVE-2026-19872 CPAN Security Group ========================================================================
CVE ID: CVE-2026-19872 Distribution: HTML-FormHandler Versions: before 0.410000 MetaCPAN: https://metacpan.org/dist/HTML-FormHandler VCS Repo: https://github.com/gshank/html-formhandler HTML::FormHandler versions before 0.410000 for Perl allow cross-site scripting via a submitted value rendered unescaped in an error message Description ----------- HTML::FormHandler versions before 0.410000 for Perl allow cross-site scripting via a submitted value rendered unescaped in an error message. The wrappers and renderers that emit a form's errors interpolate the error string straight into HTML with no escaping. Two of the library's own messages, no_match and not_allowed, splice the submitted value into that string, and a failing type constraint puts the rejected value into the message it builds, which _apply_actions hands to add_error. A field declared with a check regexp, a check list or a type constraint reaches those messages, with no custom validator and no non-default configuration. Errors rendered through an application's own escaping template layer rather than the library's rendering roles are not affected. A request over the network that submits markup to such a field gets it back live inside the error span, running script in the victim's origin. Re-rendering a rejected value later gives the stored variant. Problem types ------------- - CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Solutions --------- Upgrade to HTML-FormHandler 0.410000 or later. References ---------- https://github.com/gshank/html-formhandler/commit/2574fdb4561f5c32d44cfbfbb3188345d49eb5a2.patch https://metacpan.org/release/ABRAXXA/HTML-FormHandler-0.410000/changes
