MEDIUM 4.8 GitHub
CVE-2026-44282
decidim-elections: Election question titles allow stored script execution
## Description
A low-privilege process-scoped admin who can manage elections can store arbitrary HTML in the question statement/body without sanitization, and the public elections UI renders that value unsafely.
## Technical description
This stored XSS appears because election question titles are rendered as trusted HTML instead of sanitized text. The election question editor stores `question.body` as a normal translatable string, and the public helper `question_title` returns that value wit
Affected Products
- rubygems/decidim-elections < 0.32.0
References
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9mvp-w4rr-5c6x
- https://github.com/decidim/decidim/security/advisories/GHSA-9mvp-w4rr-5c6x
- https://github.com/decidim/decidim/pull/16659
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9mvp-w4rr-5c6x
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.8 was published on 2026-09-09 via GitHub. Affected: rubygems/decidim-elections < 0.32.0.
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