CVE-2026-28405

medium

Description

MarkUs is a web application for the submission and grading of student assignments. Prior to version 2.9.1, the courses/<:course_id>/assignments/<:assignment_id>/submissions/html_content route reads the contents of a student-submitted file and renders them without sanitization. This issue has been patched in version 2.9.1.

References

https://github.com/MarkUsProject/Markus/security/advisories/GHSA-p5pc-pxrj-3893

https://github.com/MarkUsProject/Markus/releases/tag/v2.9.1

https://github.com/MarkUsProject/Markus/commit/55d74f2ddb72d2ec2f29aa2b4cb6b2da10755036

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-03-05

Updated: 2026-03-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00039