GHSA-8RR6-2QW5-PC7R PMD Designer has Stored XSS in VBHTMLRenderer and YAHTMLRenderer via unescaped violation messages

Summary PMD's vbhtml and yahtml report formats insert rule violation messages into HTML output without escaping. When PMD analyzes untrusted source code containing crafted string literals, the generated HTML report contains executable JavaScript that runs when opened in a browser. While the defau...

CVE-2026-28338 PMD Designer has Stored XSS in VBHTMLRenderer and YAHTMLRenderer via unescaped violation messages

PMD is an extensible multilanguage static code analyzer. Prior to version 7.22.0, PMD's vbhtml and yahtml report formats insert rule violation messages into HTML output without escaping. When PMD analyzes untrusted source code containing crafted string literals, the generated HTML report contains...

CVE-2026-28338

PMD is affected in versions prior to 7.22.0 where the legacy report formats vbhtml and yahtml insert rule-violation messages into HTML without escaping, causing potential cross-site scripting if untrusted source code contains crafted strings. The vulnerability does not affect the default html for...

CVE-2026-28338 PMD Designer has Stored XSS in VBHTMLRenderer and YAHTMLRenderer via unescaped violation messages

PMD is an extensible multilanguage static code analyzer. Prior to version 7.22.0, PMD's vbhtml and yahtml report formats insert rule violation messages into HTML output without escaping. When PMD analyzes untrusted source code containing crafted string literals, the generated HTML report contains...