CVE-2024-43396Medium· 5.4▾ SunlitKhoj Vulnerable to Stored Cross-site Scripting In Automate (Preview feature)
Khoj Vulnerable to Stored Cross-site Scripting In Automate (Preview feature)
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
Depth score30/ 100 · Low
impact 29.7 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Published
Aug 20, 2024
Updated
Jul 7, 2026
CVSS
5.4
Vendor
khoj
Product
khoj
CWE
—
Depth score
30 · Low
EPSS
0.55% · p46
Platforms
—
Source
OSV
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS history
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Jul 31.
Timeline
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
- Published
Disclosed via OSV
- Record revised
Last analysed / modified upstream
- EPSS first tracked
0.5%
Affected
- khoj < 1.15.0
Patched in
- khoj 1.15.0
Full technical detail▾
Overview
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:
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 packages
khoj < 1.15.0
Remediation
Upgrade to a patched release:
khoj 1.15.0
References
- https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/security/advisories/GHSA-cf72-vg59-4j4h
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43396
- https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/commit/1c7a562880eeb7354325545d2cf6c5d1d1134812
- https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/commit/55be90cdd2f9d6a09c8bf9ceea52fc36b9201626
- https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj
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