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CVE

CVE-2026-23836

HotCRP vulnerable to remote code execution through formulas
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CVE

CVE-2026-23836

HotCRP vulnerable to remote code execution through formulas

HotCRP is conference review software. A problem introduced in April 2024 in version 3.1 led to inadequately sanitized code generation for HotCRP formulas which allowed users to trigger the execution of arbitrary PHP code. The problem is patched in release version 3.2.

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
9.9
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
0
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
-

Related Resources

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References

https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/23xxx/CVE-2026-23836.json, https://github.com/kohler/hotcrp/commit/4674fcfbb76511072a1145dad620756fc1d4b4e9, https://github.com/kohler/hotcrp/commit/bfc7e0db15df6ed6d544a639020d2ce05a5f0834, https://github.com/kohler/hotcrp/security/advisories/GHSA-hpqh-j6qx-x57h, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23836

Severity

9.9

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
9.9
EPSS Probability
0.00082%
EPSS Percentile
0.24289%
Introduced Version
0
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