MEDIUM5.4

PYSEC-2026-1230

Calibre-Web Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Details

In janeczku Calibre-Web 0.6.0 to 0.6.21, the edit_book_comments function is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) due to improper sanitization performed by the clean_string function. The vulnerability arises from the way the clean_string function handles HTML sanitization.

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Affected packages

PyPI/calibreweb

Introduced in: 0.6.0

No fixed version published yet for calibreweb (pip). Pin to a known-safe version or switch to an alternative.

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39123[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/pentesttoolscom/vulnerability-research/tree/master/CVE-2024-39123[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/calibreweb[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j22r-3rf3-cv25[ADVISORY]