# CVE-2026-44282: Election question titles allow stored script execution

- Also known as: GHSA-9MVP-W4RR-5C6X
- Severity: CVSS 4.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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: 0.32.0
- Published: 2026-09-15 · Updated: 2026-09-15

## Affected

- decidim: fixed in 0.32.0
- decidim-elections (RubyGems): fixed in 0.32.0

## Description

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework. Prior to 0.32.0, a low-privilege process-scoped administrator or election editor with question-management rights can store HTML or script-bearing content in question.body. The question_title helper returns the translatable question body through html_safe without a sanitization boundary, causing stored script execution when visitors open public election pages or voting booth screens. The persisted script executes in visitors' browsers. The vulnerability is fixed in 0.32.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on decidim, decidim-elections, upgrade to a fixed version (0.32.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/decidim/decidim/security/advisories/GHSA-9mvp-w4rr-5c6x
- https://github.com/decidim/decidim/pull/16659
- https://github.com/decidim/decidim/pull/16669
- https://github.com/decidim/decidim/commit/64dbea3739f360f1eb36932dfc49d9686e61fc00
- https://github.com/decidim/decidim/commit/b6e1b003365d10c0df2bc7edc5edd26b62fafda1
- https://github.com/decidim/decidim/releases/tag/v0.32.0

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