DHIS2 up to 2.42.5.0/2.43.0.0 OpenAPI HTML endpoint Scope HTML injection

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in DHIS2 up to 2.42.5.0/2.43.0.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component OpenAPI HTML endpoint. The manipulation of the argument Scope results in HTML injection. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-55081. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in DHIS2 up to 2.42.5.0/2.43.0.0. Affected is an unknown functionality of the component OpenAPI HTML endpoint. The manipulation of the argument scope with an unknown input leads to a html injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

DHIS2 is a flexible information system for data capture, management, validation, analytics and visualization. The DHIS2 OpenAPI HTML endpoint reflected values from the `scope` query parameter into the generated HTML document without sufficient sanitization. A crafted `scope` value could be rendered as active HTML or JavaScript in the OpenAPI documentation page. An attacker able to get a user to open a crafted OpenAPI HTML URL could execute JavaScript in that user's browser in the DHIS2 origin. Affected versions: DHIS2 2.42 and 2.43 before the 2026-06-09 security patch releases, and the development branch for DHIS2 2.44 before the fix was merged. Patched in 2.42.5.1, 2.43.0.1, the 2.42 and 2.43 line branches, and the 2.44 development branch.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-55081 since 06/16/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. 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.

Upgrading to version 2.42.5.1 or 2.43.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• DHIS2

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• 2.42.0
• 2.42.1
• 2.42.2
• 2.42.3
• 2.42.4
• 2.42.5.0
• 2.43.0

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