CVE-2026-73259EPSS p32.8%
CVE-2026-73259CVE-2026-73259
cesanta / mongoose
Description
Mongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Prior to 7.22, a remote attacker can send a crafted percent-encoded request path to a deployment using MG_ENABLE_DIRLIST and persuade a user to visit it. The mg_http_serve_dir() and listdir() path in src/http.c places the decoded request URI into the title and h1 elements without HTML entity encoding. The resulting reflected cross-site scripting executes in the Mongoose origin and can expose session data or perform actions as the victim. This issue is fixed in version 7.22.
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.4 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| EPSS | 0.41% probability of exploitation · percentile 32.8% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-29 |