CVE-2026-66296
Severity CVSS v4.0:
MEDIUM
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
03/08/2026
Last modified:
04/08/2026
Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS) vulnerability in lud oaskit allows reflected cross-site scripting via the default HTML error handler.<br />
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Oaskit.ErrorHandler.Default.format_reason/4 and Oaskit.ErrorHandler.Default.reason_to_html/1 in lib/oaskit/error_handler/default.ex render request-validation failures as an HTML page whenever the request&#39;s Accept header contains html, interpolating request-controlled strings into that page without HTML escaping. The unescaped values are object keys taken from a request body or from an object or deepObject query parameter, which appear in the JSON Schema error&#39;s instance path when a schema rejects them (for example under additionalProperties: false), and the raw Content-Type header, reflected in unsupported-media-type errors when it fails to parse.<br />
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Because browsers send Accept: text/html on ordinary top-level navigation, a crafted GET link is sufficient to trigger the error page; no form submission, custom Content-Type, or attacker-controlled script on the victim&#39;s side is required. A payload such as filter[alert(document.domain)]=x terminates the enclosing markup and the injected script executes in the origin of the application using oaskit, giving it access to that origin&#39;s cookies, session, and same-origin responses.<br />
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Both HTML error rendering and the vulnerable handler are enabled by default: Oaskit.Plugs.ValidateRequest defaults :html_errors to true and :error_handler to Oaskit.ErrorHandler.Default, so applications following the documented usage are affected without any opt-in.<br />
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This issue affects oaskit: from 0.1.0 before 0.14.1.
Impact
Base Score 4.0
5.10
Severity 4.0
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-66296.html
- https://github.com/lud/oaskit/commit/b70c6b2eaf0b11bdd0bbb21b8a87dbb3d46918a1
- https://github.com/lud/oaskit/security/advisories/GHSA-h7xw-x8wr-xpcc
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-66296
- https://github.com/lud/oaskit/security/advisories/GHSA-h7xw-x8wr-xpcc



