pgadmin-org/pgadmin4 · Security

pgAdmin 4: Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Browser Tree and Explain Visualizer modules

GHSA ID
GHSA-6p2c-69cv-3fxq
CVE ID
CVE-2026-7814
Severity
medium
Published
Updated
CVSS
4.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v3
4.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4
4.8 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Description

Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in pgAdmin 4 Browser Tree and Explain Visualizer modules.

User-controlled PostgreSQL object names (database, schema, table, column, etc.) were assigned to DOM elements via innerHTML, allowing crafted object names containing HTML markup to execute attacker-supplied JavaScript in the browser of any pgAdmin user who navigated to or executed EXPLAIN over the malicious object.

Fix replaces innerHTML with textContent.

This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.15.

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