GHSA-R6WX-627V-GH2F

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-12-05 22:37 – Updated: 2025-11-19 17:50
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Summary
Directus has an HTML Injection in Comment
Details

Summary

The Comment feature has implemented a filter to prevent users from adding restricted characters, such as HTML tags. However, this filter operates on the client-side, which can be bypassed, making the application vulnerable to HTML Injection.

Details

The Comment feature implements a character filter on the client-side, this can be bypassed by directly sending a request to the endpoint.

Example Request:

PATCH /activity/comment/3 HTTP/2
Host: directus.local

{
  "comment": "<h1>TEST <p style=\"color:red\">HTML INJECTION</p> <a href=\"//evil.com\">Test Link</a></h1>"
}

Example Response:

{
  "data": {
    "id": 3,
    "action": "comment",
    "user": "288fdccc-399a-40a1-ac63-811bf62e6a18",
    "timestamp": "2023-09-06T02:23:40.740Z",
    "ip": "10.42.0.1",
    "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
    "collection": "directus_files",
    "item": "7247dda1-c386-4e7a-8121-7e9c1a42c15a",
    "comment": "<h1>TEST <p style=\"color:red\">HTML INJECTION</p> <a href=\"//evil.com\">Test Link</a></h1>",
    "origin": "https://directus.local",
    "revisions": []
  }
}

Example Result:

Screenshot 2023-09-06 094536

Impact

With the introduction of session cookies this issue has become exploitable as a malicious script is now able to do authenticated actions on the current users behalf.

Severity ?
5.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "@directus/app"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "11.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "13.3.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "directus"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "10.10.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "10.13.4"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "directus"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "11.0.0-rc.1"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "11.2.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-54128"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-80"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-12-05T22:37:32Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-12-05T17:15:15Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "### Summary\nThe Comment feature has implemented a filter to prevent users from adding restricted characters, such as HTML tags. However, this filter operates on the client-side, which can be bypassed, making the application vulnerable to HTML Injection.\n\n### Details\nThe Comment feature implements a character filter on the client-side, this can be bypassed by directly sending a request to the endpoint.\n\nExample Request:\n\n```\nPATCH /activity/comment/3 HTTP/2\nHost: directus.local\n\n{\n  \"comment\": \"\u003ch1\u003eTEST \u003cp style=\\\"color:red\\\"\u003eHTML INJECTION\u003c/p\u003e \u003ca href=\\\"//evil.com\\\"\u003eTest Link\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h1\u003e\"\n}\n```\n\nExample Response:\n\n```json\n{\n  \"data\": {\n    \"id\": 3,\n    \"action\": \"comment\",\n    \"user\": \"288fdccc-399a-40a1-ac63-811bf62e6a18\",\n    \"timestamp\": \"2023-09-06T02:23:40.740Z\",\n    \"ip\": \"10.42.0.1\",\n    \"user_agent\": \"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36\",\n    \"collection\": \"directus_files\",\n    \"item\": \"7247dda1-c386-4e7a-8121-7e9c1a42c15a\",\n    \"comment\": \"\u003ch1\u003eTEST \u003cp style=\\\"color:red\\\"\u003eHTML INJECTION\u003c/p\u003e \u003ca href=\\\"//evil.com\\\"\u003eTest Link\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h1\u003e\",\n    \"origin\": \"https://directus.local\",\n    \"revisions\": []\n  }\n}\n```\n\nExample Result:\n\n![Screenshot 2023-09-06 094536](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/61263002/265876100-12e068fe-3d53-41b4-bfcb-458c2bc2a638.png)\n\n## Impact\n\nWith the introduction of session cookies this issue has become exploitable as a malicious script is now able to do authenticated actions on the current users behalf.",
  "id": "GHSA-r6wx-627v-gh2f",
  "modified": "2025-11-19T17:50:43Z",
  "published": "2024-12-05T22:37:32Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-r6wx-627v-gh2f"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-54128"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/4487fb18d5cb09e071b111d2dc0c9d6bcb437633"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/c89dbb233fbad2fd0cf41eb99d50c6de4e84195d"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/directus/directus"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Directus has an HTML Injection in Comment"
}


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