CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2026-34417 — OSCAL-GUI security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.1

OSCAL-GUI contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in a victim's browser by injecting malicious content through the project request parameter in oscal-forms.php. The parameter value is URL-decoded and assigned to the project_id variable without sanitization in oscal-functions.php, and when the supplied project ID is not found, the unsanitized value is concatenated into an error message via the Messages() function and reflected into the HTML response body without encoding.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.1 (3.1)
Published
2026-06-09
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
javascript/npm
Weaknesses
CWE-79

Affected products

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Matched remediation archetype

Cross-site scripting and unsafe browser output

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Check exposure

  • Trace reflected, stored, and DOM-derived untrusted values into HTML, attributes, URLs, styles, scripts, and client-side template sinks.
  • Identify affected origins, authenticated user roles, sensitive browser capabilities, and where content is shared across tenants.
  • Review framework escaping, rich-text sanitization, legacy templates, and client-side rendering paths.

Remediate safely

  • Use context-aware framework output encoding and safe DOM APIs; keep untrusted data out of executable contexts.
  • Sanitize intentionally supported markup with a maintained allowlist policy and validate URLs and attributes separately.
  • Update affected rendering components and add tests for every output context using inert sentinel markup.

Authoritative sources

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