GHSA-cf57-c578-7jvvMedium

Anubis vulnerable to possible XSS via redir parameter when using subrequest auth mode

Published
October 30, 2025
Last Modified
November 15, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Summary

When using subrequest authentication, Anubis did not perform validation of the redirect URL and redirects user to any URL scheme. While most modern browsers do not allow a redirect to javascript: URLs, it could still trigger dangerous behavior in some cases.

GET https://example.com/.within.website/?redir=javascript:alert() responds with Location: javascript:alert().

Impact

Anybody with a subrequest authentication seems affected. Using javascript: URLs will probably be blocked by most modern browsers, but using custom protocols for third-party applications might still trigger dangerous operations.

Note

This was originally reported by @mbiesiad against Weblate.

🎯 Affected products1

  • go/github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis:< 1.23.0

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