Vulnerability · Published Aug 25, 2026 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2026-38472
Medium 6.1
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 35% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A Stored XSS vulnerability in forum reward comments in GazellePW (GazellePosterWall) commit 86c4bedf727691b5a97af42a4864869d18446449 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript via the c parameter in /forums.php?action=ajax_get_jf which is later rendered in the data-tooltip attribute in /forums.php?action=viewthread and interpreted as HTML by the Tooltipster configuration.
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
- https://github.com/Mosasauroidea/GazellePW/blob/86c4bedf727691b5a97af42a4864869d18446449/sections/forums/ajax_get_jf.php#L27
- https://github.com/Mosasauroidea/GazellePW/blob/86c4bedf727691b5a97af42a4864869d18446449/sections/forums/thread.php#L725
- https://snaacky.com/1-click-exploit-chain-for-complete-gazellepw-database-compromise