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pgAdmin < 9.16 HTML Injection (CVE-2026-12047)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 322421

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Synopsis

The pgAdmin instance installed on the remote host is affected by an HTML injection vulnerability.

Description

The version of pgAdmin installed on the remote host is prior to 9.16. It is, therefore, affected by an HTML injection vulnerability:

 - Cloud deployment endpoints forward SDK exception text directly into JSON fields without HTML-encoding. The Cloud Wizard frontend renders these responses through html-react-parser, allowing an authenticated user to inject markup into the wizard panel. (CVE-2026-12047)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade pgAdmin to version 9.16 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/10069

http://www.nessus.org/u?58802d4b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 322421

File Name: pgadmin_CVE-2026-12047.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: Databases

Published: 6/24/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Configuration: Enable thorough checks (optional)

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.64

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-12047

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:postgresql:pgadmin_4

Required KB Items: installed_sw/PostgreSQL pgAdmin4

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/18/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-12047