Vulnerability · Published Aug 13, 2026 · Assigned by Secur0
CVE-2026-19744Stored Cross-site Scripting in Pentestify Markdown renderer via unescaped quotes
Medium 5.1
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in Pentestify from maalfer. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 41% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 4.0)5.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 59.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
Cross-site Scripting in the Markdown renderer in maalfer Pentestify before 2.3.2 allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the application origin via a Markdown link whose URL contains a double quote, which closes the anchor's href attribute because the renderer's sanitization step does not escape quotes
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| maalfer | Pentestify | 0 – before 2.3.2 |
Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N