Beets is the media library management system. Prior to version 2.10.0, the bundled web UI uses Underscore template interpolation mode <%= ... %> for untrusted metadata fields. In this runtime, <%= ... %> is raw insertion and HTML escaping is only performed by <%- ... %>. Rendered output is then inserted with .html(...), allowing attacker-controlled markup to become active DOM. This issue has been patched in version 2.10.0.

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Mon, 04 May 2026 20:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Beetbox
Beetbox beets
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Description Beets is the media library management system. Prior to version 2.10.0, the bundled web UI uses Underscore template interpolation mode <%= ... %> for untrusted metadata fields. In this runtime, <%= ... %> is raw insertion and HTML escaping is only performed by <%- ... %>. Rendered output is then inserted with .html(...), allowing attacker-controlled markup to become active DOM. This issue has been patched in version 2.10.0.
Title beets is Vulnerable to XSS
Weaknesses CWE-79
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Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-04T17:06:23.162Z

Reserved: 2026-04-23T16:05:01.710Z

Link: CVE-2026-42052

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-04T18:16:30.063

Modified: 2026-05-04T18:16:30.063

Link: CVE-2026-42052

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-04T19:43:54Z

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