DirectAdmin CVE-2026-114718: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CVE-2026-114718 (4.7 in the advisory's data) affects DirectAdmin versions before 1.6.20: and 1.7.x before 1.7.5 is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the password plugin. Update to 1.6.20 or later to close it.
What this means under a SharedLicense license
An attacker who reaches the affected component can gain the outcomes implied by CWE-79 — patch rather than mitigate.
Roundcube Webmail before 1.6.20 and 1.7.x before 1.7.5 is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the password plugin. Error text returned by a password driver was concatenated into the message presented to the user without HTML escaping, so a backend able to influence that text, such as the DirectAdmin API, could inject script into the Roundcube interface. Upstream fixed this in the commit “Fix XSS issue in handling of password driver error responses”, which escapes the driver message before display.
Reference: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-114718
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