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InvoicePlane EUVDEUVD-2026-87128

| CVE-2026-85293 MEDIUM
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)
2026-09-25 GitHub_M
4.8
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: GitHub_M
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Attack ChainAIDerived

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

  1. Access
    Authenticate as admin with client-edit rights
  2. Delivery
    Store XSS payload in client_email value
  3. Exploit
    Victim admin opens invoice/quote mailer page
  4. Execution
    Script executes in InvoicePlane origin
  5. Impact
    Perform same-origin actions with victim session

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 an authenticated administrator with permission to create/edit a client record (to store the payload in client_email, which lacks email-syntax enforcement) and, separately, a second authenticated administrator who must open the related invoice or quote mailer page. The mailer feature must be configured for the affected client. Exploitation is limited by these factors: two distinct high-privilege admin accounts are involved, the victim must perform user interaction (navigating to the mailer page), and only versions up to and including 1.7.2-beta-1 are affected (fixed in 1.7.2). The unescaped sink is specifically the to_email value attribute in the invoice/quote mailer views.

Impact

This is a genuine but low-priority stored XSS. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, base 4.8) accurately captures the constrained real-world risk: exploitation requires PR:H (an authenticated administrator who can edit a client record) AND UI:R (a second authenticated administrator must open the invoice/quote mailer page), and the impact is only C:L/I:L. In practice this is an admin-to-admin attack - both the attacker (who must edit a client) and the victim are high-privilege users - so it offers little privilege escalation beyond what an admin already holds; its main value would be lateral compromise of another admin's session or an insider/backdoored-account scenario. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public exploit code were provided. The advisory (GHSA-477r-xmgc-vcvj) and the fix commit confirm the vulnerability and patch, so the technical facts are solid; the residual risk is low because of the dual high-privilege requirement, required user interaction, and the mailer having to be configured. Note the S:C (scope change) is a defensible XSS convention - the injection crosses from the server-rendered form into the victim's browser context - but reasonable analysts could argue S:U; this does not change the low-severity conclusion.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

A malicious or compromised administrator edits a client and sets the client_email field to an attribute-breaking payload (email syntax is not enforced). Later, when the mailer is configured and a different authenticated administrator opens the invoice or quote mailer page for that client, the payload breaks out of the double-quoted value attribute and executes JavaScript in the InvoicePlane origin, letting it perform same-origin actions with the victim admin's session. No public proof-of-concept is identified at time of analysis.

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 – Sep 25, 2026

Stored cross-site scripting in InvoicePlane 1.7.2-beta-1 and earlier lets an authenticated administrator who can edit client records persist an attribute-breaking payload in the client_email field, which the invoice and quote mailer views then render unescaped inside a double-quoted to_email value attribute. When the mailer feature is configured for the affected client and a second authenticated administrator opens the related mailer page, the injected JavaScript runs in the InvoicePlane origin and can act with that victim's session. Exploitation requires two separate high-privilege admin accounts plus victim user interaction, which keeps this a genuine but low-priority issue; no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the flaw is fixed in version 1.7.2.

RemediationAI

Upgrade to InvoicePlane 1.7.2, the vendor-released patch that escapes client_email with htmlsc() in the invoice and quote mailer views (fixing the to_email value attribute sink) and adds valid_email validation on client_email in Mdl_Clients as defense-in-depth; see the advisory GHSA-477r-xmgc-vcvj, PR #1635, commit 1e74c032ff1c65e6a4f9d173505f415c3a539f57, and the v1.7.2 release page. Until upgrading, treat client_email as untrusted: audit existing client records for stored values containing quotes, angle brackets, or script syntax and correct them, since the payload persists until the record is edited. Reduce the attack surface by restricting the ability to create or edit client records to the smallest possible set of trusted administrators, and by treating any previously compromised admin account as a staging vector rather than assuming the payload came from an external attacker. If the mailer feature is not operationally required, disabling it removes the rendering sink entirely, at the cost of losing invoice and quote emailing. Deploy a Content-Security-Policy that disallows inline and externally hosted script in the InvoicePlane origin to blunt execution of any residual stored payloads, understanding that a strict CSP may break legitimate front-end functionality and requires testing. Note that the vulnerability has a limited window of exposure because 1.7.2-beta-1 and earlier are the only affected versions and the fix is already published, so patching is straightforward and preferred over any of these compensating controls.

Affected VersionsENISA

InvoicePlane < 1.7.2

Affected Packages

euvd invoiceplane fix: 1.7.2

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), manifesting as a stored/second-order variant. InvoicePlane's client model (Mdl_Clients) persisted the client_email value without enforcing email syntax, so arbitrary characters - including the double quote needed to break out of the attribute context - could be stored. The corresponding mailer view templates for invoices and quotes then interpolated that value directly into the to_email value attribute of an HTML form field without output encoding such as htmlsc(), producing an attribute-injection sink. Because the payload is stored server-side rather than reflected, it fires whenever any authenticated administrator subsequently loads the mailer page for the affected client while mailer configuration is present. The scope-changed (S:C) rating in the CVSS vector reflects that script executing in the InvoicePlane origin can reach same-origin resources and perform privileged actions using the victim's session cookies, though confidentiality and integrity impacts are bounded to Low and no availability impact is scored. The upstream fix in 1.7.2 applies htmlsc() escaping to client_email in the invoice and quote mailer views and adds valid_email validation in Mdl_Clients as defense-in-depth, part of a broader application-wide output-escaping sweep (PRs #1500/#1516) that also addressed 32 related escaping findings across 17 view files.

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Severity by source

Vendor (GitHub_M) PRIMARY 4.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
vuln.today AI 4.8 MEDIUM

Attacker must be an admin able to edit clients (PR:H) and a second admin must open the mailer page (UI:R); script escapes into the victim browser context (S:C) with limited C:L/I:L and no availability impact.

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

Primary rating from Vendor (GitHub_M).

CVSS VectorVendor: GitHub_M

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

1
Patch available
Sep 25, 2026 - 17:04 EUVD

DescriptionCVE.org

InvoicePlane is a self-hosted open source application for managing invoices, clients, and payments. In version 1.7.2-beta-1, InvoicePlane stores client_email values without enforcing email syntax and renders them unescaped inside double-quoted value attributes in the invoice mailer form and quote mailer form. An administrator who can edit a client can store attribute-breaking input, and, when the mailer is configured, JavaScript executes when another authenticated administrator opens the related mailer page. The script runs in the InvoicePlane origin and can perform same-origin actions with the victim's session. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.2.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 88% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche self-hosted open-source PHP invoicing app, no broad 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
Poc
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

24
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +24
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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CVE-2025-67082 MEDIUM POC
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CVE-2023-23011 MEDIUM POC
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CVE-2026-24744 MEDIUM POC
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