CVE-2026-78391

HIGHPre-NVD 8.88.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

This high-severity CVE scores 8.8 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.3%, top 83% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: epss, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
8.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

RansomLook contains a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the cryptocurrency wallet detail view. Cryptocurrency addresses and blockchain names originating from external sources, including the public crowd-sourced ransomwhe.re feed, were stored without sufficient validation and later embedded directly into an inline JavaScript onclick handler.

Although Jinja HTML autoescaping was applied, it does not provide adequate protection when untrusted data is inserted into a JavaScript string inside an HTML attribute. HTML entities such as ' are decoded by the browser's HTML parser before the resulting attribute is interpreted as JavaScript. Consequently, a specially crafted cryptocurrency address containing quote characters and JavaScript syntax could escape the intended string literal and execute arbitrary JavaScript when a user clicked the affected wallet's CSV export button.

Because cryptocurrency information imported from an untrusted upstream could reach the vulnerable rendering path, exploitation may not require an authenticated RansomLook account if an attacker can introduce a malicious wallet record into a consumed external data source. Successful exploitation could allow attacker-controlled JavaScript to execute in the security context of the RansomLook web application, potentially exposing information accessible to the victim or performing actions with the victim's privileges.

The patch mitigates the issue by validating cryptocurrency addresses and blockchain identifiers before storage, restricting them to a safe character set, and replacing the inline JavaScript handler with data-* attributes and an external event listener so wallet values are treated strictly as data rather than executable JavaScript.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8(medium)
EG Risk
55(Track)
EG Risk 55/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity88% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability100% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
17%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 24, 2026

Last Modified

August 26, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Aug 24, 2026
Upstream fix merged — awaiting tagged release. Sources: github_commit.
github_commit

commit 7efb59253f23 (RansomLook/RansomLook)

Fix landed in RansomLook/RansomLook commit 7efb59253f23 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/RansomLook/RansomLook/commit/7efb59253f23552538f9a11c9bf21e7bcfcc1319

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-78391(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 24× in last 7d / 24× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-08-30 01:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-08-29 19:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-08-29 07:03 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-08-29 07:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-08-28 21:42 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-08-28 18:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-08-28 06:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-08-27 18:14 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-08-27 18:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-08-27 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-08-27 05:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-08-26 17:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-08-26 16:13 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-08-26 16:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-08-26 14:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-08-26 03:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-08-25 15:36 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-08-25 15:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-08-25 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-08-25 03:26 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-08-25 03:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-08-24 15:16 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-08-24 14:21 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-08-24 14:21 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-78391?
CVE-2026-78391 is a high vulnerability published on August 24, 2026. RansomLook contains a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the cryptocurrency wallet detail view. Cryptocurrency addresses and blockchain names originating from external sources, including the public crowd-sourced ransomwhe.re feed, were stored without sufficient validation and later…
When was CVE-2026-78391 disclosed?
CVE-2026-78391 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 24, 2026, with the most recent update on August 26, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-78391 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-78391 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 82.8% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-78391?
CVE-2026-78391 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-78391?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-78391, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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