CVE-2026-43980Malla: Stored XSS via Meshtastic node names in multiple frontend pages
- 6.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.33%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 74% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
Malla is a web analyzer for Meshtastic networks based on MQTT data. Prior to commit 4086e2b5f61615a813b70b25bc76095083552135, code names (long_name, short_name) received via MQTT are stored in SQLite without sanitization and rendered into the DOM without escaping. Any participant on a public Meshtastic MQTT broker can set a malicious node name that executes JavaScript in the browser of every Malla dashboard visitor. Commit 4086e2b5f61615a813b70b25bc76095083552135 fixes the issue.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits1
References tagged exploit1 reference
- https://github.com/zenitraM/malla/security/advisories/GHSA-ch57-39q2-4crm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 74% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
References3
- https://github.com/zenitraM/malla/security/advisories/GHSA-ch57-39q2-4crm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
- https://github.com/zenitraM/malla/commit/4086e2b5f61615a813b70b25bc76095083552135 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/malla/PYSEC-2026-2618.yaml (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-64171 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-ch57-39q2-4crm (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-43980)Record last updated .