Medium 5.4Published Mar 5, 2026

CVE-2026-28405MarkUs is a web application for the submission and grading of student assignments.

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 08:50 UTC)

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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.

CVSS: 5.4 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-79
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Jun 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

markusproject markus markusproject:markus	before 2.9.1	NVD

References

https://github.com/MarkUsProject/Markus/commit/55d74f2ddb72d2ec2f29aa2b4cb6b2da10755036patch
https://github.com/MarkUsProject/Markus/releases/tag/v2.9.1release-notes
https://github.com/MarkUsProject/Markus/security/advisories/GHSA-p5pc-pxrj-3893vendor-advisory

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