FKIE_CVE-2024-39123

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-07-19 20:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:41
Severity
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/pentesttoolscom/vulnerability-research/tree/master/CVE-2024-39123Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/pentesttoolscom/vulnerability-research/tree/master/CVE-2024-39123Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
janeczku calibre-web *
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