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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.9 Critical

CVE-2026-40470

Hackage package and doc upload stored XSS vulnerability

Description

A critical XSS vulnerability affected hackage-server and hackage.haskell.org. HTML and JavaScript files provided in source packages or via the documentation upload facility were served as-is on the main hackage.haskell.org domain. As a consequence, when a user with latent HTTP credentials browses to the package pages or documentation uploaded by a malicious package maintainer, their session can be hijacked to upload packages or documentation, amend maintainers or other package metadata, or perform any other action the user is authorised to do.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

hackage-server

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0.1 to < 0.6affected

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