Khoj — Xss (CVE-2024-43396)
Date: 2024-08
Affected: khoj/khoj
Attack vector: xss
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2024-43396
CWE: CWE-79
CVSS: 5.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Khoj is an application that creates personal AI agents. The Automation feature allows a user to insert arbitrary HTML inside the task instructions, resulting in a Stored XSS. 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. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.0.


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