# CVE-2026-103974: lichess.org: Stored HTML Injection via PGN Annotator Tag in Studies

- Also known as: GHSA-43G7-R6HP-CCF8
- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fix: a fix or patch is referenced
- Published: 2026-10-14 · Updated: 2026-10-14

## Affected

- lichess-org lila: fixed in c54596c9e1569d378fe20f80d4c790c6fdee54c4

## Description

lichess.org is the forever free, adless and open source chess server. Prior to commit c54596c9e1569d378fe20f80d4c790c6fdee54c4, a user who can add a chapter to a study can place attacker-controlled text in the PGN Annotator tag, which becomes Comment.Author.External and is returned verbatim by authorText. When a study node has at least two comments, ui/analyse/src/treeView/inlineView.ts interpolates that author string into HTML passed to the innerHTML hook without escaping it. Opening the affected study can therefore render stored attacker-controlled HTML and CSS for other viewers, including navigation to an attacker-controlled site, content spoofing, and CSS-based data exposure, although the site's content security policy blocks injected JavaScript. This vulnerability is fixed by commit c54596c9e1569d378fe20f80d4c790c6fdee54c4.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/security/advisories/GHSA-43g7-r6hp-ccf8
- https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/commit/c54596c9e1569d378fe20f80d4c790c6fdee54c4

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