Vulnerability advisory
GHSA-vcm5-gvmp-78mp
Gogs has DOM-based XSS via Milestone Name on New Issue Page
Also known as CVE-2026-52807GO-2026-5661
- CVSS 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Affected versions
| Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|
| All versions before 0.14.3 | 0.14.3 |
Description
Summary
The fix for GHSA-vgjm-2cpf-4g7c (DOM-based XSS via milestone selection) was only applied to templates/repo/issue/view_content.tmpl but not to templates/repo/issue/new_form.tmpl. An attacker can store an HTML/JavaScript payload in a milestone name, and when any user opens the New Issue page and interacts with the milestone dropdown, the payload executes in their browser via Semantic UI's preserveHTML behavior.
Details
GHSA-vgjm-2cpf-4g7c was patched by adding | Sanitize (bluemonday HTML tag stripping) to milestone name rendering in view_content.tmpl. However, the same milestone dropdown exists in new_form.tmpl and was not patched.
In new_form.tmpl, milestone names are rendered with Go's default auto-escaping ({{.Name}}), which converts < to < etc. This prevents direct HTML injection. However, when the browser renders the DOM, the text content of the element contains the decoded original payload (e.g., [image]).
Semantic UI 2.4.2's dropdown component has preserveHTML: true as the default setting. When a user selects a dropdown item, the internal set.text() method calls jQuery's .html() with the item's text content. This re-parses the decoded text as HTML, creating the injected element and triggering the JavaScript event handler.
PoC
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Impact
- Stored DOM XSS: Any user with write access to a repository can create a malicious milestone. Any other user who visits the New Issue page and interacts with the milestone dropdown will have arbitrary JavaScript executed in their browser session.
- Session hijacking: The attacker can steal session cookies, perform actions as the victim, or escalate privileges.