CVE-2024-54128
MEDIUMCVE-2024-54128 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.7) CWE-80 vulnerability in @directus/app. O3 Security confirms whether CVE-2024-54128 is actually reachable in your code before you act, and blocks exploitation at runtime until you patch.
Directus has an HTML Injection in Comment
Blast Radius
Weekly download volume for affected packages — a proxy for how broadly this vulnerability is deployed.
@directus/appnpmdirectusnpmDescription
Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. 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. This vulerability is fixed in 10.13.4 and 11.2.0.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📦npm | @directus/app | ≥ 11.0.0&&< 13.3.1 | 13.3.1 |
| 📦npm | directus | ≥ 10.10.0&&< 10.13.4 | 10.13.4 |
| 📦npm | directus | ≥ 11.0.0-rc.1&&< 11.2.2 | 11.2.2 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for @directus/app. O3's reachability analysis confirms whether the vulnerable code path is actually invoked in your application, so you act on real exposure instead of every transitive match.
Fix
Update @directus/app to 13.3.1 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2024-54128 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 pinpoints whether CVE-2024-54128 is reachable in your code and exactly where to fix it, then blocks exploitation in production at runtime until the patched version is deployed.
Tailored to CVE-2024-54128. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-54128 in your dependencies?
O3 detects CVE-2024-54128 across npm dependencies and uses function-level reachability to confirm whether the vulnerable code path is actually reachable — not just present. No false positives.