CVE-2026-42877 — facturascripts/facturascr…
MEDIUMCVE-2026-42877 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.4) Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in facturascripts/facturascripts. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
FacturaScripts vulnerable to stored XSS via product reference in sales/purchases
Exploitation Status
Proof-of-concept exploit code exists
- CISA’s SSVC triage found public proof-of-concept exploit code for this CVE, though no confirmed active exploitation.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2026-42877.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2026-42877 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 378,156 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
facturascripts/facturascriptsReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Packagist packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
Summary
A stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the product search modal of sales and purchases documents. An authenticated user with access to the warehouse module can create a product with a malicious reference that executes arbitrary JavaScript in the browser of any other user who opens the product search modal inside an invoice, order, or delivery note.
Affected files
Core/Lib/AjaxForms/SalesModalHTML.phpCore/Lib/AjaxForms/PurchasesModalHTML.php
Vulnerability details
The referencia field of a product variant is injected directly into an HTML onclick attribute string without JavaScript context escaping:
// SalesModalHTML.php ~line 102
$tbody .= '<tr onclick="return salesFormAction(\'add-product\', \''
. $row['referencia'] // no htmlspecialchars() applied
. '\');">';
When a product is saved, noHtml() encodes ' → '. This appears safe in static HTML context. However, the modal HTML is later returned as a JSON response and inserted into the DOM via innerHTML:
// SalesDocument.html.twig line 118
document.getElementById("findProductList").innerHTML = data.products;
The browser HTML parser decodes ' → ' during the innerHTML assignment, breaking out of the JavaScript string literal in the onclick attribute and executing the injected code.
Attack payload stored in database: x'+alert(1)+'
Resulting onclick after innerHTML decode:
return salesFormAction('add-product', 'x'+alert(1)+'')
// ^^^^^^^^^^ executes before the function call
Steps to reproduce
Step 1 — Inject the payload
- Log in as a user with write access to Warehouse → Products
- Navigate to
/EditProductoand create a new product with the following values:
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Reference | x'+alert(1)+' |
| Description | test |
- Save the product
Step 2 — Trigger the XSS
- Make sure at least one customer exists in the system (Sales → Customers)
- Navigate to
/EditFacturaCliente?codcliente=<customer_code> - In the invoice form, click the product search button next to the "Referencia" field
- Click on the 'malicious' product
alert(1)
Impact
Although session cookies (fsLogkey, fsNick) have the HttpOnly flag set and cannot be read directly via document.cookie, the injected script runs in the victim's authenticated browser context, meaning the attacker can make arbitrary authenticated requests on their behalf, create new admin users via AJAX POST to /EditUser, exfiltrate any business data visible in the DOM, or redirect the user to an external site. The most critical scenario is privilege escalation: a low-privilege employee with only warehouse
access can execute JavaScript in an administrator's session without knowing their password.
Recommended fix
Apply htmlspecialchars() with ENT_QUOTES before inserting referencia into the onclick attribute in both affected files.
Core/Lib/AjaxForms/SalesModalHTML.php
// Before (vulnerable):
$tbody .= '<tr onclick="return salesFormAction(\'add-product\', \''
. $row['referencia']
. '\');">';
// After (safe):
$tbody .= '<tr onclick="return salesFormAction(\'add-product\', \''
. htmlspecialchars($row['referencia'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')
. '\');">';
Core/Lib/AjaxForms/PurchasesModalHTML.php
Apply the same change to the equivalent line.
Why ENT_QUOTES is required: ENT_QUOTES encodes both " and ' characters. This ensures that ' is stored as ' and — critically — remains ' after innerHTML assignment, because htmlspecialchars produces a form that the HTML parser does not decode back into a raw quote inside a JS string context.
Alternative mitigation: replace innerHTML with innerText or a DOM-based rendering approach that never parses injected strings as HTML. This would eliminate the entire class of HTML-injection-via-innerHTML vulnerabilities in the sales and purchases
forms.
Credits
Omar Ramirez
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | facturascripts/facturascripts | all versions | No fix |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for facturascripts/facturascripts, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Remediation status
No patched version of facturascripts/facturascripts has shipped for CVE-2026-42877 yet. Where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range, and apply any maintainer-recommended mitigation.
Mitigate without a patch
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2026-42877 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to CVE-2026-42877. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
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