Bug 2533728

Summary: CVE-2026-85484 perl-HTML-FormHandler: HTML::FormHandler: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via unescaped HTML labels [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Vladimir Vasilev <vvasilev>
Component: perl-HTML-FormHandlerAssignee: Emmanuel Seyman <emmanuel>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Vladimir Vasilev 2026-09-15 12:34:37 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

HTML::FormHandler versions before 0.410002 for Perl render option group labels and radio button labels into HTML without escaping.

The Select, RadioGroup, CheckboxGroup and HorizCheckboxGroup widgets render a group label unescaped, Select into a label attribute and the other three into element content. RadioGroup also renders each radio button's own label unescaped.

Any application whose option list is built from data rather than literals, using options_from, an options_fieldname method, or the DBIC model, allows attacker-influenced text in a label that can override the options or embed JavaScript in rendered pages.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-09-15 13:50:49 UTC
FEDORA-2026-21850d7df0 (perl-HTML-FormHandler-0.410002-1.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-21850d7df0

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-09-22 00:53:58 UTC
FEDORA-2026-21850d7df0 (perl-HTML-FormHandler-0.410002-1.fc44) has been pushed to the Fedora 44 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.