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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1jZjcyLXZnNTktNGo0aM4AA-0B

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

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

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cf72-vg59-4j4h
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: 3 months ago
Updated: 3 months ago

CVSS Score: 5.4
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-cf72-vg59-4j4h, CVE-2024-43396
References:

• https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/security/advisories/GHSA-cf72-vg59-4j4h
• https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/commit/1c7a562880eeb7354325545d2cf6c5d1d1134812
• https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/commit/55be90cdd2f9d6a09c8bf9ceea52fc36b9201626
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43396
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cf72-vg59-4j4h

Repository: https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj
Blast Radius: 1.6

Affected Packages