CVE-2026-22256 HIGH

CVE-2026-22256: Salvo is vulnerable to reflected XSS in the list_html function

Vendor Salvo-Rs
Product salvo
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published January 8, 2026
Last update January 8, 2026

CVSS base score

8.8/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Salvo is a Rust web backend framework. Prior to version 0.88.1, the function list_html generate an file view of a folder which include a render of the current path, in which its inserted in the HTML without proper sanitation, this leads to reflected XSS using the fact that request path is decoded and normalized in the matching stage but not is inserted raw in the html view (current.path), the only constraint here is for the root path (eg. /files in the PoC example) to have a sub directory (e.g common ones styles/scripts/etc…) so that the matching return the list HTML page instead of the Not Found page. This issue has been patched in version 0.88.1.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

January 8, 2026 CVE published
January 8, 2026 Record updated