GHSA-cf72-vg59-4j4hMediumCVSS 5.4

Khoj Vulnerable to Stored Cross-site Scripting In Automate (Preview feature)

Published
August 20, 2024
Last Modified
August 21, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-43396 →

📋 Description

Summary

The Automation feature allows a user to insert arbitrary HTML inside the task instructions, resulting in a Stored XSS.

Details

The q parameter for the /api/automation endpoint does not get correctly sanitized when rendered on the page, resulting in the ability of users to inject arbitrary HTML/JS.

PoC

POST /api/automation?q=%22%3E%3C%2Ftextarea%3E%3Cimg%20src%3Dx%20onerror%3Dalert(document.cookie)%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(2)%3C%2Fscript%3E

Impact

Stored XSS: image

Fix

  • Added a Content Security Policy to all config pages on the web client, including the automation page
  • Used DOM scripting to construct all components on the config pages, including the automation page

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/khoj:< 1.15.0

🔗 References (5)