CVE-2026-85485

high

Description

HTML::FormHandler versions before 0.410002 for Perl render some error messages into HTML without escaping. The Table form layout and the Bootstrap 2 and 3 wrappers splice each error string straight into the surrounding markup. Version 0.410000, the fix for CVE-2026-19872, escaped the equivalent values in the other layouts and wrappers, and 0.410002 extended that to these three. Error messages that contain attacker-influenced content such as rejected field values could embed JavaScript in rendered pages.

References

https://metacpan.org/release/ABRAXXA/HTML-FormHandler-0.410002/changes

https://github.com/gshank/html-formhandler/commit/2ea9e138dbfe231e317c13936abe6583217c807f.patch

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-08

Updated: 2026-09-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.2

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00186