CVE-2019-1010261 Gitea XSS Vulnerability

What is CVE-2019-1010261?

CVE-2019-1010261 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Gitea Gitea, published on 18 Jul 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Gitea 1.7.0 and earlier is affected by: Cross Site Scripting (XSS). The impact is: Attacker is able to have victim execute arbitrary JS in browser. The component is: go-get URL generation - PR to fix: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/5905. The attack vector is: victim must open a specifically crafted URL. The fixed version is: 1.7.1 and later.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-1010261?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including code.gitea.io/gitea. It affects 1 product.

Products include Gitea Gitea.

How do I fix CVE-2019-1010261?

Upgrade code.gitea.io/gitea to 1.7.1 or later.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2019-1010261 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-1010261 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Gitea Gitea

• CVE-2026-60004 Gitea Code Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-73278 Gitea WebAuthn bypass during OAuth and OIDC sign-in Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-94205 Gitea fork workflow approval bypass through maintainer-triggered events Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-42968 Gitea vulnerable to Argument Injection Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-45330 Improper Privilege Management in Gitea Critical 9.8

All Gitea Gitea vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-5rh7-6gfj-mc87, GO-2023-1922, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-1010261.