CVE 5.2 MEDIUM

HUSTOJ is Vulnerable to Stored CSV Injection (Formula Injection) in Contest Rank Export_CVE-2026-23873

5.2 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Description

hustoj is an open source online judge based on PHP/C++/MySQL/Linux for ACM/ICPC and NOIP training. All versions are vulnerable to CSV Injection (Formula Injection) through the contest rank export functionality (contestrank.xls.php and admin/ranklist_export.php). The application fails to sanitize user-supplied input (specifically the "Nickname" field) before exporting it to an .xls file (which renders as an HTML table but is opened by Excel). If a malicious user sets their nickname to an Excel formula when an administrator exports and opens the rank list in Microsoft Excel, the formula will be executed. This can lead to arbitrary command execution (RCE) on the administrator's machine or data exfiltration. A fix was not available at the time of publication.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-23873
Source GitHub_M
Published Jan 21, 2026 at 23:26
Modified Jan 22, 2026 at 21:54

Affected Product

Vendor zhblue
Product hustoj
Version <= 26.01.01
Affected Versions zhblue hustoj <= 26.01.01

CWE Classification

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