Medium severity · published May 28, 2026
CVE-2026-42401
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Kibana Leading to Stored HTML Injection
5.4
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (CWE-79) in Kibana can lead to stored HTML injection. A user with write access to an Elasticsearch index could persist crafted markup which, when subsequently rendered through an affected Kibana view by another user, was not sufficiently sanitized. Successful exploitation could result in unauthorized UI manipulation and outbound network requests issued from the viewing user's browser session.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 3% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KI
Kibana · Elastic
9.0.0 through 9.3.4; 8.0.0 through 8.19.15 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42401
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-42401
Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-16-9-3-5-security-update-esa-2026-34/386552
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