changedetection.io is a free open source web page change detection tool. Prior to version 0.54.4, there is a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability identified in the /rss/tag/ endpoint of changedetection.io. The tag_uuid path parameter is reflected directly in the HTTP response body without HTML escaping. Since Flask returns text/html by default for plain string responses, the browser parses and executes injected JavaScript. This issue has been patched in version 0.54.4.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-8whx-v8qq-pq64 changedetection.io has Reflected XSS in its RSS Tag Error Response
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History

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:15:00 +0000

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Description changedetection.io is a free open source web page change detection tool. Prior to version 0.54.4, there is a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability identified in the /rss/tag/ endpoint of changedetection.io. The tag_uuid path parameter is reflected directly in the HTTP response body without HTML escaping. Since Flask returns text/html by default for plain string responses, the browser parses and executes injected JavaScript. This issue has been patched in version 0.54.4.
Title changedetection.io: Reflected XSS in RSS Tag Error Response
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-06T06:53:56.959Z

Reserved: 2026-03-03T17:50:11.242Z

Link: CVE-2026-29038

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-03-06T07:16:01.393

Modified: 2026-03-06T07:16:01.393

Link: CVE-2026-29038

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