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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-66882"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-25T08:03:47.721Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-25T19:51:21.332Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-66882"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-66882.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-66882"
title: "Reflected XSS in AshAuthentication confirmation and magic link interaction forms"
summary: "Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS) vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows reflected cross-site scripting via the confirmation and magic link interaction forms.\n\nWhen a strategy is configured with require_interaction? set to true, AshAuthentication serves an intermediate HTML page asking the user to confirm the action by submitting a form. Both such pages embed a request parameter directly into a hidden input's value attribute without HTML escaping: lib/ash_authentication/add_ons/confirmation/confirmation_form.html.eex interpolates the confirm parameter, and lib/ash_authentication/strategies/magic_link/sign_in_form.html.eex interpolates the magic link token parameter. These templates are compiled with EEx.function_from_file/3 using plain \u003c%= %\u003e expressions, which perform no escaping, so the parameter is reflected verbatim.\n\nNeither accept handler validates the value before rendering it. AshAuthentication.AddOn.Confirmation.Plug.accept/2 only checks that a confirm key is present, and AshAuthentication.Strategy.MagicLink.Plug.accept/2 reads the parameter directly, so no token signature is verified at this stage and arbitrary attacker-supplied text reaches the template. An unauthenticated attacker can therefore craft a URL whose parameter terminates the attribute and injects markup, for example a quote followed by a \u003cscript\u003e element. Because the accept phase is served over GET, loading the crafted link is sufficient; no form submission or prior authentication is required.\n\nThe injected script executes in the origin of the application embedding AshAuthentication, giving it access to that origin's cookies, session, and same-origin responses. Since these pages are part of the authentication flow, a victim following what appears to be a legitimate confirmation or sign-in link is a plausible target.\n\nThis issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.8.0 before 4.14.2 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.13."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4.8.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.14.2"},{"version":"5.0.0-rc.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.0.0-rc.13"}],"vendor":"team-alembic","product":"ash_authentication","packageName":"ash_authentication","collectionURL":"https://repo.hex.pm","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"fe0b4558dbe852fee5d81a460a8355577618a8c8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"*","changes":[{"at":"62719710790a150a9eacab9c0a066e0d122d15be","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"0bd5199db066be22b2ca1ec8bc6109e5d62e6070","status":"unaffected"}]}],"vendor":"team-alembic","product":"ash_authentication","packageName":"team-alembic/ash_authentication","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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