{"id":78627,"date":"2026-05-19T16:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40904-html-injection-in-smart-polling-in-guardian-cmc-before-26-1-0\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:23:35","slug":"cve-2025-40904-html-injection-in-smart-polling-in-guardian-cmc-before-26-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40904-html-injection-in-smart-polling-in-guardian-cmc-before-26-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-40904 &#8211; HTML injection in Smart Polling in Guardian\/CMC before 26.1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2025-40904<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 19, 2026, 1:23 p.m. | 35\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :A Stored HTML Injection vulnerability was discovered in the Smart Polling functionality due to improper validation of an input parameter. An authenticated user with limited privileges can push malicious remote strategies containing HTML tags through the sync. When a victim views the affected remote strategy in the Smart Polling functionality, the injected HTML renders in their browser, enabling phishing and possibly open redirect attacks. Full XSS exploitation and direct information disclosure are prevented by the existing input validation and Content Security Policy configuration.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 6.5 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2025-40904 Published : May 19, 2026, 1:23 p.m. | 35\u00a0minutes ago Description :A Stored HTML Injection vulnerability was discovered in the Smart Polling functionality due to improper validation of an input parameter. An authenticated user with limited privileges can push malicious remote strategies containing HTML tags through the sync. When a victim views &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}