CVE-2026-22720: VMware Aria Operations

Critical severity, CVSS 9.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Aria Operations contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges to create custom benchmarks may be able to inject script to perform administrative actions in VMware Aria Operations.  To remediate CVE-2026-22720, apply the patches listed in the 'Fixed Version' column of the 'Response Matrix' of  VMSA-2026-0001 https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36947https:// .

Affected products

• VMware Aria Operations: from 8.0, before 8.18.6 (fixed in 8.18.6)
• VMware Cloud Foundation: from 4.0, before 5.2.3 (fixed in 5.2.3); from 9.0, before 9.0.2.0 (fixed in 9.0.2.0)
• VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure: from 2.2, up to and including 3.0
• VMware Telco Cloud Platform: from 4.0, up to and including 5.1

Published 2026-02-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.