Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessGain project-admin/workflow-edit access
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DeliveryInject XSS payload into workflow error toast
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ExploitVictim triggers workflow error condition
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ExecutionMalicious toast renders in victim session
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PersistExecute script in victim's browser context
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ImpactHijack session / act as victim
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 | Exploitation requires an attacker with privileges to create or modify YouTrack workflows (per PR:H, effectively project-administrator access) to store the XSS payload in a workflow error notification toast. It further requires victim interaction (UI:R): a user must trigger the workflow error condition so the poisoned toast renders in their browser. Limiting factors: high privilege prerequisite makes this primarily an insider or post-compromise escalation vector rather than a remote-anonymous exploit; the payload only fires along a workflow error path and only affects sessions of users who encounter that toast. Not exploitable against default configurations without a privileged actor and a triggering victim. |
| Impact | The CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.9 (vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N) is dominated by the scope change (S:C) and high confidentiality impact (C:H) typical of an XSS payload that executes in a victim's authenticated browser session. Real-world risk is meaningfully constrained by two factors: PR:H means the attacker must already hold high privileges - in YouTrack, workflow scripts are authored/edited by project administrators, so this is not an anonymous-attacker primitive - and UI:R means a victim must trigger the poisoned workflow so the malicious error-notification toast renders. No EPSS score, KEV listing, or public POC is present in the supplied data, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation; the finding was vendor-reported (JetBrains) and quietly patched rather than surfacing through in-the-wild activity. The C:H rating is somewhat aggressive for a toast-based XSS - it presumes session/token theft leading to account compromise; typical stored XSS is more often scored C:L/I:L, so treat the 6.9 as an upper-bound estimate. Overall this is a low-to-medium operational priority: a privileged-insider or post-compromise escalation vector in a niche server component, patched and lacking any exploitation signal. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A user with workflow-editing privileges (project admin) crafts a YouTrack workflow whose error path emits a notification toast containing a stored XSS payload. When another user - potentially a higher-privileged admin - performs an action that triggers the workflow error, the toast renders and the script executes in that victim's authenticated session (S:C), enabling session/token theft or actions on their behalf. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 30, 2026
Stored cross-site scripting in JetBrains YouTrack before 2026.2.19197 allows an attacker with privileges to create or modify workflows-effectively a project administrator or workflow author-to store script content that is later rendered in a workflow error notification toast. The victim must trigger the affected workflow error path (UI:R) for the payload to execute in their authenticated YouTrack browser session; this is not a remote unauthenticated attack against default configurations, and the assessed vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N keeps confidentiality and integrity impact low. Vendor-released patch 2026.2.19197 is available, and no public exploit identified at time of analysis.
RemediationAI
Upgrade to JetBrains YouTrack 2026.2.19197 or later (vendor-released patch: 2026.2.19197). If immediate upgrade is not possible, restrict workflow creation and modification permissions to trusted administrators, since PR:H means limiting project-administrator and workflow-author access reduces exposure; audit existing workflows for malicious or unexpected error-notification content; and consider temporarily disabling or suppressing custom workflow error notification toasts as a compensating control-trade-off: loss of automated workflow error visibility and some disruption to administrator troubleshooting. Because exploitation also requires victim interaction (UI:R), user awareness around unexpected workflow error pop-ups may help but should not replace patching. See the vendor advisory at https://www.jetbrains.com/privacy-security/issues-fixed/.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
YouTrack is JetBrains' issue tracking and project management platform. Workflows are user-configurable automations that can run on project and issue events; their error notifications are surfaced through browser toast components. CVE-2026-100275 is CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation, i.e., cross-site scripting): a user-controlled workflow error message is rendered in the toast without adequate output encoding, allowing stored script execution. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:jetbrains:youtrack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* confirms the affected vendor/product and the EUVD range is YouTrack 0 < 2026.2.19197. The supplied CVSS score is 6.9; the authoritative assessed vector is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, which preserves the high-privilege workflow-author prerequisite (PR:H) and victim interaction requirement (UI:R) while limiting direct confidentiality and integrity impact to low. The scope change (S:C) reflects execution in the victim's browser session rather than only within the server-side workflow context. Exploitation requires an actor who can create or modify workflows plus a victim who triggers the poisoned workflow error; it is primarily an insider or post-compromise escalation path, not a default remote-anonymous exploit.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Workflow authoring requires admin privilege (PR:H) and a victim must trigger the error toast (UI:R); scope changes as script runs in the victim's browser (S:C), but I rate C/I:L as typical for XSS rather than the vendor's C:H.
Primary rating from Vendor (JetBrains).
CVSS VectorNVD
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionNVD
In JetBrains YouTrack before 2026.2.19197 stored XSS in the workflow error notification toast was possible
Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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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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EUVD-2026-90019
GHSA-fw7c-qpvf-j7qx
NVD
CVE.org
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Exploit-DB