CVE-2026-28338

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-28338
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-28338.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-28338
Aliases
Published
2026-02-27T20:28:05.739Z
Modified
2026-04-02T13:32:46.221733Z
Severity
  • 6.8 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
PMD Designer has Stored XSS in VBHTMLRenderer and YAHTMLRenderer via unescaped violation messages
Details

PMD is an extensible multilanguage static code analyzer. Prior to version 7.22.0, PMD's vbhtml and yahtml report formats insert rule violation messages into HTML output without escaping. When PMD analyzes untrusted source code containing crafted string literals, the generated HTML report contains executable JavaScript that runs when opened in a browser. Practical impact is limited because vbhtml and yahtml are legacy formats rarely used in practice. The default html format is properly escaped and not affected. Version 7.22.0 contains a fix for the issue.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-79"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/28xxx/CVE-2026-28338.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/pmd/pmd

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/pmd/pmd
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
7f74d775143d842c9a9964e59e64284596a83a84

Affected versions

6.*
6.21.0-with-designer
pmd-build/0.*
pmd-build/0.7
pmd-build/0.8
pmd-build/0.9
pmd-eclipse-plugin/4.*
pmd-eclipse-plugin/4.0.0.v20130510-1000
pmd-eclipse-plugin/4.0.1.v20130811-0001
pmd-eclipse-plugin/4.0.2.v20131031-1124
pmd_releases/4.*
pmd_releases/4.3
pmd_releases/5.*
pmd_releases/5.0.0
pmd_releases/5.0.1
pmd_releases/5.0.2
pmd_releases/5.0.3
pmd_releases/5.0.4
pmd_releases/5.0.5
pmd_releases/5.1.0
pmd_releases/5.1.1
pmd_releases/5.1.2
pmd_releases/5.1.3
pmd_releases/5.2.0
pmd_releases/5.2.1
pmd_releases/5.2.2
pmd_releases/5.2.3
pmd_releases/5.3.0
pmd_releases/5.3.1
pmd_releases/5.3.2
pmd_releases/5.3.3
pmd_releases/5.3.4
pmd_releases/5.3.5
pmd_releases/5.3.6
pmd_releases/5.3.7
pmd_releases/5.3.8
pmd_releases/5.4.0
pmd_releases/5.4.1
pmd_releases/5.4.2
pmd_releases/5.4.3
pmd_releases/5.4.4
pmd_releases/5.4.5
pmd_releases/5.4.6
pmd_releases/5.5.0
pmd_releases/5.5.1
pmd_releases/5.5.2
pmd_releases/5.5.3
pmd_releases/5.5.4
pmd_releases/5.5.5
pmd_releases/5.5.6
pmd_releases/5.5.7
pmd_releases/5.6.0
pmd_releases/5.6.1
pmd_releases/5.7.0
pmd_releases/5.8.0
pmd_releases/5.8.1
pmd_releases/6.*
pmd_releases/6.0.0
pmd_releases/6.0.1
pmd_releases/6.1.0
pmd_releases/6.10.0
pmd_releases/6.11.0
pmd_releases/6.12.0
pmd_releases/6.13.0
pmd_releases/6.14.0
pmd_releases/6.15.0
pmd_releases/6.16.0
pmd_releases/6.17.0
pmd_releases/6.18.0
pmd_releases/6.19.0
pmd_releases/6.2.0
pmd_releases/6.20.0
pmd_releases/6.21.0
pmd_releases/6.22.0
pmd_releases/6.23.0
pmd_releases/6.24.0
pmd_releases/6.25.0
pmd_releases/6.26.0
pmd_releases/6.27.0
pmd_releases/6.28.0
pmd_releases/6.29.0
pmd_releases/6.3.0
pmd_releases/6.30.0
pmd_releases/6.31.0
pmd_releases/6.32.0
pmd_releases/6.33.0
pmd_releases/6.34.0
pmd_releases/6.35.0
pmd_releases/6.36.0
pmd_releases/6.37.0
pmd_releases/6.38.0
pmd_releases/6.39.0
pmd_releases/6.4.0
pmd_releases/6.40.0
pmd_releases/6.41.0
pmd_releases/6.42.0
pmd_releases/6.43.0
pmd_releases/6.44.0
pmd_releases/6.45.0
pmd_releases/6.46.0
pmd_releases/6.47.0
pmd_releases/6.48.0
pmd_releases/6.49.0
pmd_releases/6.5.0
pmd_releases/6.50.0
pmd_releases/6.51.0
pmd_releases/6.52.0
pmd_releases/6.53.0
pmd_releases/6.54.0
pmd_releases/6.55.0
pmd_releases/6.6.0
pmd_releases/6.7.0
pmd_releases/6.8.0
pmd_releases/6.9.0
pmd_releases/7.*
pmd_releases/7.0.0
pmd_releases/7.0.0-rc1
pmd_releases/7.0.0-rc2
pmd_releases/7.0.0-rc3
pmd_releases/7.0.0-rc4
pmd_releases/7.0.0-rc4-dist
pmd_releases/7.0.0-rc4-pmd-compat6
pmd_releases/7.0.0-rc4-pmd-compat6+with-pr4749
pmd_releases/7.1.0
pmd_releases/7.10.0
pmd_releases/7.11.0
pmd_releases/7.12.0
pmd_releases/7.13.0
pmd_releases/7.14.0
pmd_releases/7.15.0
pmd_releases/7.16.0
pmd_releases/7.17.0
pmd_releases/7.18.0
pmd_releases/7.19.0
pmd_releases/7.2.0
pmd_releases/7.20.0
pmd_releases/7.21.0
pmd_releases/7.3.0
pmd_releases/7.4.0
pmd_releases/7.5.0
pmd_releases/7.6.0
pmd_releases/7.7.0
pmd_releases/7.8.0
pmd_releases/7.9.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-28338.json"