CVE-2026-16627: high-severity vulnerability in GitLab
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in GitLab
Published · Updated
41Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 7.7epss 0.5%
exploitation probability
0.5%top 61% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 19.2 before 19.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user with developer-role permissions to escalate privileges due to improper sanitization of HTML content rendered in a CI job modal.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected products
GitLab · GitLabpublic PoCs found — 1
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