Security Categories not loading post upgrade - Error: "Unknown standard: cwe_standard⚱sonar-secu

[FNK]

Version: SonarQube Community Edition 26.1.0.118079 (2026.1)

Error: “Unknown standard: cwe_standard:urn:sonar-security-standard:cwe:standard:4.18”

Location: Rules page → Security Category facet (all categories show loading spinners)

Steps taken: Cleared .\data\es8 and .\data\web directories, restarted server

Database: SQL Server

[ganncamp (G Ann Campbell)]

Hi,

Welcome to the community and thanks for this report!

Would you mind providing a screenshot of that?

 
Thx,
Ann

[Thomas.Beck]

Hi Ann,

Here is a photo of the issue:

Thanks,
Tom

[FNK]

Any update on this as I’m still seeing it as of this morning

[anita.stanisz]

Hi @FNK

Thanks for the reporting this issue! We’re going to investigate it soon

Anita

[robert.hoover]

Hello @FNK ,

This is indeed a bug, and we will have a fix for it soon. Thank you again for pointing this out.

Best,

Robert Hoover

[robert.hoover]

You can track the fix in this ticket linked here.