CVE-2026-77463
What it is
Remark42 is a self-hosted comment engine for blogs, articles, or any other place where readers can add comments. From 1.0.0 until 1.16.2, Remark42 globally trusts True-Client-IP, X-Real-IP, and X-Forwarded-For without verifying that the direct peer is a trusted proxy, and middleware.RealIP overwrites r.RemoteAddr before per-IP controls run. In a directly reachable deployment, or a proxy that forwards attacker-controlled headers, a remote attacker can rotate spoofed forwarding headers to obtain fresh token buckets for rate-limited endpoints, bypass vote de-duplication when --votes-ip is enabled, mint anonymous identities, and poison stored comment IPs and request logs. The global concurrent-request throttle and per-request timeouts still limit availability impact. Mitigation support is available in version 1.16.2, but operators must configure --trusted-proxy for the deployment topology.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network without logging in. Limited direct impact.
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: not scored yet.
- Severity: 6.5 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Weakness
- CWE-348
- Record status
- Received
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 6.5
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
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Fix and advisories
- https://github.com/umputun/remark42/commit/b1502801facd7782a1c70fd51f8ad5c2eb650d39
- https://github.com/umputun/remark42/commit/e62b3c830d81659cf5d2687b0c8261da7d42fdab
- https://github.com/umputun/remark42/pull/2116
- https://github.com/umputun/remark42/pull/2118
- https://github.com/umputun/remark42/releases/tag/backend/v1.16.2
- https://github.com/umputun/remark42/security/advisories/GHSA-56x6-q882-mf27
References
- https://github.com/umputun/remark42/commit/b1502801facd7782a1c70fd51f8ad5c2eb650d39
- https://github.com/umputun/remark42/commit/e62b3c830d81659cf5d2687b0c8261da7d42fdab
- https://github.com/umputun/remark42/pull/2116
- https://github.com/umputun/remark42/pull/2118
- https://github.com/umputun/remark42/releases/tag/backend/v1.16.2
- https://github.com/umputun/remark42/security/advisories/GHSA-56x6-q882-mf27
- https://remark42.com/docs/configuration/parameters/#trusted-proxies-and-client-ip