stefanprodan podinfo up to 6.11.2 /echo cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in stefanprodan podinfo up to 6.11.2. It has been declared as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the file /echo. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-43644. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in stefanprodan podinfo up to 6.11.2 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file /echo. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

podinfo through 6.11.2 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in the /echo and /api/echo endpoints where the echoHandler writes request body content directly to the response without setting explicit Content-Type or X-Content-Type-Options headers. Attackers can craft cross-origin HTML pages with auto-submitting forms containing script payloads in the request body, which are served as text/html due to Go's content type detection, allowing the reflected script to execute in the podinfo origin context when victims visit the attacker's page.

The weakness was released by Niccolo Parlanti as 474. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-43644 since 05/01/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• stefanprodan

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• podinfo

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• 6.11.0
• 6.11.1
• 6.11.2

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