CVE-2026-48940

FAUCET Score

A Joomla user with K2 "create item" rights (Author tier by default) can submit an article whose `embedVideo` POST field contains a raw `<script>` tag; K2 stores it verbatim and renders it unescaped to any visitor of the article page.

First published: Jun 25, 2026Last modified: Jun 28, 2026

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 2.26CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:joomlaworks:k2::::::joomla\!::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.4LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

1.7

Impact Score

1.4

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.17%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

6.3%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0017 is in the 5th percentile among its peer group of 289 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

getk2.org

Product