CVE-2026-120648

Name	CVE-2026-120648
Description	CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow HTML injection via text containing --> in comment. Arguments are placed between <!-- and --> without escaping, so text containing --> closes the comment early. An application that passes request data to comment can be made to inject HTML into the page.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
libcgi-pm-perl (PTS)	bookworm	4.55-1	vulnerable
	trixie	4.68-1	vulnerable
	forky	4.72-1	vulnerable
	sid	5.02-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
libcgi-pm-perl	source	(unstable)	5.02-1

Notes

https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/msg/44875015/
https://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/commit/6a17eb84703d84bca86b0079f5870ca9c921ffd4 (v5.01)