CVE-2026-126495: medium-severity vulnerability in emqx MQTTX
MQTTX through 1.13.3 Stored XSS via Topic Tree and JSON Tree Tooltips
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10Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3
MQTTX desktop through 1.13.3 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows attackers to inject script by publishing malicious MQTT topic names or payloads rendered unescaped in tooltips. Attackers controlling a broker or publishing to subscribed topics can execute script in the Electron renderer, which has nodeIntegration enabled, when victims hover Topic Tree or JSON tree nodes.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
Affected products
emqx · MQTTXRelated CVEs — emqx MQTTX
In the same product, most dangerous first.
References
https://github.com/emqx/MQTTXhttps://github.com/emqx/MQTTX/blob/v1.13.3/src/background.ts#L276-L283https://github.com/emqx/MQTTX/blob/v1.13.3/src/widgets/JSONViewer.vue#L175-L184https://github.com/emqx/MQTTX/blob/v1.13.3/src/widgets/TreeView.vue#L195-L226https://github.com/emqx/MQTTX/issues/2180https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/mqttx-through-1.13.3-stored-xss-via-topic-tree-and-json-tree-tooltips