CVE-2026-42052 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-42052: beets is Vulnerable to XSS

Vendor Beetbox
Product beets
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published May 4, 2026
Last update May 5, 2026

CVSS base score

6.0/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS 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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 4, 2026 CVE published
May 5, 2026 Record updated