CVE-2024-43396 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-43396: Khoj Vulnerable to Stored Cross-site Scripting In Automate (Preview feature)

Vendor Khoj-Ai
Product khoj
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published August 20, 2024
Last update August 21, 2024

CVSS base score

5.4/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 20, 2024 CVE published
August 21, 2024 Record updated