Medium 5.4Published Aug 20, 2026

CVE-2026-73259Mongoose: Reflected XSS via decoded URI in directory listing render

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

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Exploited in the last 30 days

Mongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Prior to 7.22, a remote attacker can send a crafted percent-encoded request path to a deployment using MG_ENABLE_DIRLIST and persuade a user to visit it. The mg_http_serve_dir() and listdir() path in src/http.c places the decoded request URI into the title and h1 elements without HTML entity encoding. The resulting reflected cross-site scripting executes in the Mongoose origin and can expose session data or perform actions as the victim. This issue is fixed in version 7.22.

CVSS: 5.4 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/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: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Aug 20, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

cesanta mongoose cesanta:mongoose (from the name)	before 7.22	CNA record
cesanta mongoose cesanta:mongoose	before 7.22	NVD

References

https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/security/advisories/GHSA-9cwm-487w-h25wx-refsource-confirm, exploit, vendor-advisory
https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/pull/3611x-refsource-misc, issue-tracking, patch
https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/commit/a9df523f76f43a38bd53b4232b9cfd4c16869e71x-refsource-misc, patch
https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/releases/tag/7.22x-refsource-misc, release-notes

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