CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-5160

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Apr 15, 2026Sources checked Nov 11, 2026

6.1MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-5160 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 6.1. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Microsoft Security Response Center guidance

Vendor revision: Sep 25, 2026

CBL-Mariner Releases Release Notes

Vendor-listed releases

1.31.0-19
2.62.0-15

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.3%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-5160?

Versions of the package github.com/yuin/goldmark/renderer/html before 1.7.17 are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to improper ordering of URL validation and normalization. The renderer validates link destinations using a prefix-based check (IsDangerousURL) before resolving HTML entities.

This allows an attacker to bypass protocol filtering by encoding dangerous schemes using HTML5 named character references. For example, a payload such as javascript:alert(1) is not recognized as dangerous during validation, leading to arbitrary script execution in the context of applications that render the URL.

Source: NVD