CVE-2026-72574

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
picocmsPico0 <= 2.1.4affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-644: CWE-644: Improper Neutralization of HTTP Headers for Scripting Syntax

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References