# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-73374"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-12T14:05:39.735Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-12T17:12:36.380Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-73374"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-73374.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-73374"
title: "Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Unescaped CNA Reference Tags in vulnerability-lookup"
summary: "A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability existed in Vulnerability-Lookup in the render_tag_badges Jinja filter used to display reference tags associated with vulnerability records.\n\nValues from containers.cna.references[].tags[] were directly interpolated into HTML badge elements and the resulting string was wrapped in markupsafe.Markup. Because Markup marks the generated content as safe, Jinja's automatic HTML escaping was bypassed.\n\nAn authenticated user with permissions to create or modify vulnerability records, such as a user holding the vulnerability:create or vulnerability:modify permission, could submit a crafted reference tag through the CNA API containing arbitrary HTML or JavaScript-capable markup.\n\nThe malicious value would subsequently be stored as part of the vulnerability record. When another user visited the corresponding public /cve/\u003cid\u003e or /vuln/\u003cid\u003e page, the crafted tag would be rendered as HTML in the viewer's browser. This could result in JavaScript execution in the security context of the Vulnerability-Lookup application.\n\nSuccessful exploitation could allow an attacker to perform actions in the context of a victim, access information available to the victim's browser session, or modify page content. As the affected vulnerability pages can be accessed publicly, exploitation may affect users who are not authenticated.\n\nThe issue was corrected by applying markupsafe.escape() to each reference tag before inserting it into the HTML badge markup, while retaining Markup only for the static HTML scaffolding."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.5.1"}],"vendor":"vulnerability-lookup","product":"vulnerability-lookup","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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