# CVE-2026-27469: Isso: Stored XSS via comment website field

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-2527, GHSA-9FWW-8CPR-Q66R
- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.13.2
- Published: 2026-02-21 · Updated: 2026-02-24

## Affected

- isso-comments isso: version range not reported
- isso (PyPI): fixed in 0.13.2

## Description

Isso is a lightweight commenting server written in Python and JavaScript. In commits before 0afbfe0691ee237963e8fb0b2ee01c9e55ca2144, there is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the website and author comment fields. The website field was HTML-escaped using quote=False, which left single and double quotes unescaped. Since the frontend inserts the website value directly into a single-quoted href attribute via string concatenation, a single quote in the URL breaks out of the attribute context, allowing injection of arbitrary event handlers (e.g. onmouseover, onclick). The same escaping is missing entirely from the user-facing comment edit endpoint (PUT /id/) and the moderation edit endpoint (POST /id//edit/). This issue has been patched in commit 0afbfe0691ee237963e8fb0b2ee01c9e55ca2144. To workaround, nabling comment moderation (moderation = enabled = true in isso.cfg) prevents unauthenticated users from publishing comments, raising the bar for exploitation, but it does not fully mitigate the issue since a moderator activating a malicious comment would still expose visitors.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on isso-comments isso, isso, upgrade to a fixed version (0.13.2) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/isso-comments/isso/security/advisories/GHSA-9fww-8cpr-q66r
- https://github.com/isso-comments/isso/commit/0afbfe0691ee237963e8fb0b2ee01c9e55ca2144
- https://docs.python.org/3/library/html.html#html.escape

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