CVE-2026-72574

Medium

Description

A host header injection vulnerability in picocms/Pico through 2.1.4 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to control the origin of JavaScript and CSS assets loaded by the default theme. When base_url is unset (the default), Pico::getBaseUrl in lib/Pico.php builds the base URL from unvalidated Host, X-Forwarded-Host, X-Forwarded-Proto, and X-Forwarded-Port request headers.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.1
Exploit probability—
ProductPico
PublishedAug 10, 2026
First seenAug 10, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-644CWE-644

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
picocms Picov ≤ 2.1.4—

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