CVE-2026-73161 - cti-transmute Conversion Table Allows XSS via Unescaped Cell Content During Search Highlighting

CVE-2026-73161 - cti-transmute Conversion Table Allows XSS via Unescaped Cell Content During Search Highlighting

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CVE ID :CVE-2026-73161
Published : Aug. 11, 2026, 9:07 a.m. | 20 minutes ago
Description :Affected versions of cti-transmute improperly handle conversion-table values passed through the search highlighting feature. The highlight() function previously returned the underlying text directly when no search query was supplied, or performed a regex replacement that inserted tags without first escaping the original content. Because the resulting value is used by an HTML-rendering sink, malicious markup contained in conversion data could be interpreted as HTML rather than displayed as text. The fix introduces a shared highlightMatches() helper that first converts special characters such as <, >, &, and quotes into HTML entities. Only after escaping does the code insert the application-controlled element used for search highlighting.
Severity: 5.1 | MEDIUM
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