Medium 4.6Published Mar 9, 2026

CVE-2026-30913flarum/nickname: Display name injection in notification emails (autolink & markdown)

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 2:50 PM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

Flarum is open-source forum software. When the flarum/nicknames extension is enabled, a registered user can set their nickname to a string that email clients interpret as a hyperlink. The nickname is inserted verbatim into plain-text notification emails, and recipients may be misled into visiting attacker-controlled domains.

CVSS: 4.6 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-79
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Mar 10, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

flarum nicknames flarum:nicknames (from the name)	before 1.8.3	CNA record

References

References

https://github.com/flarum/framework/security/advisories/GHSA-3c4m-j3g4-hh25	x-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/flarum/nicknames/commit/4dde99729abdce8f6e2a7437c86e38735fdcca28	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/flarum/nicknames/releases/tag/v1.8.	x-refsource-misc

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