CVE-2026-72574
A host header injection vulnerability in picocms/Pico through 2.1.4 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to control the origin of JavaScript and CSS assets loaded by the default theme. When base_url is unset (the default), Pico::getBaseUrl() in lib/Pico.php builds the base URL from unvalidated Host, X-Forwarded-Host, X-Forwarded-Proto, and X-Forwarded-Port request headers. The resulting URL propagates to theme_url, assets_url, and plugins_url, causing script and stylesheet tags to load resources from an attacker-controlled domain.
Scoring
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS base score
- 6.1
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.24%
- CWE
- CWE-644
- Published
- 2026-08-10
- Last modified
- 2026-08-10
Affected products
- picocms Pico
Weakness type
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