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title: "CVE-2026-61728: SOCFortress CoPilot - Stored XSS & Privilege Escalation"
description: "SOCFortress CoPilot < 0.1.70 and < 0.1.76 contains a stored XSS caused by unsanitized HTML in alert comments and other SOC fields, letting authenticated portal users execute persistent scripts, exploit requires user authentication."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-61728/
---

# CVE-2026-61728 SOCFortress CoPilot - Stored XSS & Privilege Escalation

SOCFortress CoPilot < 0.1.70 and < 0.1.76 contains a stored XSS caused by unsanitized HTML in alert comments and other SOC fields, letting authenticated portal users execute persistent scripts, exploit requires user authentication.

CVSS base score 9.9 /10

Critical

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Required

EPSS

0.46% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-61728)

## Details

Type

Stored XSS

Impact

Stored XSS, Privilege Escalation, Information Disclosure, Data Tampering

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Published

30 October 2026

Updated

1 November 2026

Weakness

[CWE-79](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to version 0.1.76 or later.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-61728](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-61728)
- [https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/commit/461e8f84794aee8ada588de3bad79430dc9f4f3d](https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/commit/461e8f84794aee8ada588de3bad79430dc9f4f3d)
- [https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/commit/ab9078bdee5d1c737f37f481103984665a670bdd](https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/commit/ab9078bdee5d1c737f37f481103984665a670bdd)
- [https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/pull/904](https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/pull/904)
- [https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/pull/938](https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/pull/938)
- [https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/security/advisories/GHSA-8hqj-cqcc-5f6w](https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/security/advisories/GHSA-8hqj-cqcc-5f6w)
- [https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/tree/v0.1.76](https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/tree/v0.1.76)

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