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Agora Project CVE-2026-63147

| EUVDEUVD-2026-100583 MEDIUM
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)
2026-10-13 disclosure@vulncheck.com GHSA-p4qp-qp77-4vr9
5.1
CVSS 4.0 · Vendor: vulncheck
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate as low-privileged user
  2. Delivery
    Upload file with malicious filename
  3. Exploit
    Bypass paramFilter via $_FILES
  4. Execution
    Victim renders stored filename
  5. Impact
    Script executes in victim's browser

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Requires a valid authenticated account on the Agora Project instance (PR:L) with permission to upload files, and a crafted filename containing HTML/SVG markup such as an SVG onload payload; the payload survives because uploaded-file names arrive through $_FILES and are not processed by the paramFilter that sanitizes $_GET/$_POST input. Exploitation is limited by the authentication requirement and by the need for another user to subsequently view/render the stored filename (UI:P), and only affects deployments on versions before 26.10.0.

Impact

Signals align on a genuine but modest priority. The CVSS 4.0 base score is 5.1 (medium): AV:N/AC:L/AT:N give easy remote reachability, but PR:L requires an authenticated account and UI:P requires a victim to passively render the stored filename, which meaningfully gates exploitation. Impact is confined to the subsequent system (victim browser) as SC:L/SI:L with no impact to the vulnerable application itself (VC/VI/VA all N) - consistent with stored XSS rather than server compromise. No EPSS score was provided, the CVE is not on CISA KEV, and no public exploit was identified, so there is no evidence of active or at-scale exploitation; this is a low-to-moderate, authenticated-abuse-class issue rather than an internet-wide emergency. The main caveat: EPSS is absent, so probabilistic exploitation likelihood cannot be quantified from the input.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

A low-privileged but authenticated Agora Project user uploads a file whose name embeds an SVG onload (or similar HTML/script) payload. Because uploaded filenames arrive via $_FILES and bypass the paramFilter sanitization applied to $_GET/$_POST, the malicious name is stored unsanitized and later rendered to other users, executing script in their browsers. No public exploit code was identified at time of analysis, though the technique is described in the VulnCheck advisory.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026

Stored cross-site scripting in Omnispace Agora Project before version 26.10.0 allows authenticated users with file-upload rights to embed HTML/SVG script markup in an uploaded file's name, which is stored unsanitized and later rendered to other users, executing script in their browsers. The payload survives because uploaded-file names arrive through the PHP $_FILES superglobal rather than $_GET or $_POST, so the application's paramFilter never inspects them. Exploitation requires a valid account with upload permission plus a victim who views the affected listing or page (authentication required per the PR:L vector; CVSS 3.1 base 5.1), and no public exploit identified at time of analysis; vendor patch version 26.10.0 resolves the issue.

RemediationAI

Upgrade to Agora Project 26.10.0, the vendor-released patch version published at https://github.com/xech/agora-project/releases/tag/26.10 (Patch available per vendor advisory), which addresses the stored XSS in uploaded file names. Until the upgrade is applied, compensating controls are required: restrict file-upload privileges to the smallest possible set of trusted accounts (this does not eliminate risk from malicious insiders but removes the unauthenticated/low-privilege path), and enforce server-side or reverse-proxy validation that rejects or rewrites uploaded filenames containing angle brackets, script/event-handler markup or SVG payloads - note that over-aggressive filename filtering can break legitimate uploads with non-ASCII or punctuation-heavy names, so a whitelist of permitted characters is preferable. Additional options include disabling file uploads entirely where the feature is not business-critical, applying HTML-entity encoding when filenames are rendered in the UI or via an output-encoding WAF rule (which may miss stored values already in the database and can introduce false positives), and, if compromise is suspected, auditing files already stored with suspicious or markup-like names and purging the affected records. Generic hardening such as Content-Security-Policy with script-src restrictions and HttpOnly/SameSite cookies reduces the impact of any residual injection but does not fix the underlying missing sanitization. Consult https://www.agora-project.net/ and the VulnCheck advisory for vendor guidance; no public exploit code was identified at time of analysis.

Affected VersionsENISA

Agora Project 0 <26.10.0

Affected Packages

euvd agora_project fix: 26.10.0

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

Checking this CVE against your own stacks and servers is part of the Basic plan and up.

Technical ContextAI · show details

The root cause is CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation, i.e. cross-site scripting) in a PHP web application. Agora Project implements a paramFilter routine that sanitizes incoming request data, but that filter is applied only to the $_GET and $_POST superglobals. File uploads are delivered by PHP through the separate $_FILES superglobal, and Agora stores the client-supplied filename (for example an SVG onload payload) without neutralization before echoing it back into HTML pages. Because the filename is persisted and then rendered to other users, this is a stored (persistent) XSS rather than reflected XSS, and the assessed vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N reflects a scope change (S:C) with limited confidentiality and integrity impact, no availability impact, and a required user interaction on the victim's side. The affected codebase is the Omnispace Agora Project (also distributed via the xech/agora-project GitHub repository); deployments on any release prior to 26.10.0 are in scope, and no CPE strings or additional attack-surface details were supplied in the source data.

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Severity by source

Vendor (vulncheck) PRIMARY 5.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
vuln.today AI 5.4 MEDIUM

Authenticated upload (PR:L) and a victim must render the payload (UI:R); stored XSS crosses into the browser (S:C) with limited confidentiality/integrity and no availability impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (vulncheck).

CVSS VectorVendor: vulncheck

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Passive
Vulnerable system: Confidentiality
None
Vulnerable system: Integrity
None
Vulnerable system: Availability
None
Subsequent system: Confidentiality
Low
Subsequent system: Integrity
Low
Subsequent system: Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

1
Patch available
Oct 13, 2026 - 21:05 EUVD

DescriptionCVE.org

Omnispace Agora Project before 26.10.0 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows authenticated users to inject malicious script by uploading a file with HTML/script markup embedded in its filename, which bypasses the paramFilter since uploaded-file names arrive through $_FILES rather than $_GET/$_POST. Attackers can upload a file with a crafted name such as an SVG onload payload to have the unsanitized filename stored and later rendered to other users, resulting in script execution in their browsers.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 90% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche open-source collaborative groupware, limited enterprise footprint
Data Quality
6 sources
Confidence: High

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

26
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +26
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.

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