Umbraco has Stored XSS in UFM Rendering Pipeline via Permissive DOMPurify Attribute Filtering
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · Low
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
Umbraco is an ASP.NET CMS. From 16.2.0 to before 16.5.1 and 17.2.2, An authenticated backoffice user with access to Settings can inject malicious HTML into property type descriptions. Due to an overly permissive attributeNameCheck configuration (/.+/) in the UFM DOMPurify instance, event handler attributes such as onclick and onload, when used within Umbraco web components (umb-*, uui-*, ufm-*) were not filtered. This vulnerability is fixed in 16.5.1 and 17.2.2.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| umbraco | Umbraco-CMS | 16.2.0 to before 16.5.1; 17.0.0 to before 17.2.1 | 16.5.1, 17.2.1 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | Umbraco.Cms (NuGet) | 16.2.0 to before 16.5.1 | 16.5.1 | Patch available | GHSA-vrqc-59mw-qqg7 |
| — | Umbraco.Cms (NuGet) | 17.0.0 to before 17.2.2 | 17.2.2 | Patch available | GHSA-vrqc-59mw-qqg7 |
- Umbraco-CMS Vendorumbraco Affected 16.2.0 to before 16.5.1; 17.0.0 to before 17.2.1 Fixed in 16.5.1, 17.2.1 Patch available CNA
- Umbraco.Cms (NuGet) Vendor— Affected 16.2.0 to before 16.5.1 Fixed in 16.5.1 Patch available GHSA-vrqc-59mw-qqg7
- Umbraco.Cms (NuGet) Vendor— Affected 17.0.0 to before 17.2.2 Fixed in 17.2.2 Patch available GHSA-vrqc-59mw-qqg7
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Umbraco-CMS (umbraco) Fixed in 16.5.1, 17.2.1
- Fix · GHSA-vrqc-59mw-qqg7 Umbraco.Cms (NuGet) Fixed in 16.5.1 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-vrqc-59mw-qqg7 Umbraco.Cms (NuGet) Fixed in 17.2.2 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-31833
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vrqc-59mw-qqg7
References
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- TI-2021-22392 Umbraco v8.14.1 - 'baseUrl' SSRF CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
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- TI-2019-15240 Umbraco CMS 4.11.8 through 7.15.10, and 7.12.4, allows Remote Code Execution by… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
- TI-2020-04738 Cross-site scripting in Umbraco CMS CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
Sources
- CVE-2026-31833 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-31833 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-vrqc-59mw-qqg7 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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