Vulnerability · Published Jul 23, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck
CVE-2026-65697Fathom Lite 1.3.1 Stored XSS via /collect Endpoint
Medium 6.1
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in fathom from usefathom. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 20% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
Fathom Lite through 1.3.1 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the analytics collection endpoint that allows unauthenticated attackers to inject a javascript: URI into the Top Pages dashboard by supplying a crafted hostname and pathname to the unauthenticated /collect endpoint. The parseHostname and parsePathname functions perform no URI scheme validation, allowing a javascript: hostname combined with a newline-prefixed pathname to be stored and later rendered as an anchor href in the authenticated dashboard without sanitization, enabling session hijacking and full account takeover when an operator clicks the poisoned entry.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
References
- Researcher Disclosure technical-description, exploit
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/fathom-lite-stored-xss-via-collect-endpoint third-party-advisory