CVE-2026-23836

8.8 highEPSS 0.5%

High (8.8) in hotcrp hotcrp. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

HotCRP is conference review software. A problem introduced in April 2024 in version 3.1 led to inadequately sanitized code generation for HotCRP formulas which allowed users to trigger the execution of arbitrary PHP code. The problem is patched in release version 3.2.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 39% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2026-01-19
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

hotcrp:hotcrp

References

https://github.com/kohler/hotcrp/commit/4674fcfbb76511072a1145dad620756fc1d4b4e9
https://github.com/kohler/hotcrp/commit/bfc7e0db15df6ed6d544a639020d2ce05a5f0834
https://github.com/kohler/hotcrp/security/advisories/GHSA-hpqh-j6qx-x57h

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