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CVE-2024-55226 — vaultwarden

MEDIUM

CVE-2024-55226 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.4) Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vaultwarden. A fix is available for vaultwarden — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Vaultwarden authenticated reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Also known asGHSA-vprm-27pv-jp3w
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 8, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

  • CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2024-55226.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.4%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs33th percentile — riskier than 33% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.30%0.59%0.89%0.2%0.4%May 26Sep 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected
🦀vaultwarden

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Description

Vaultwarden v1.32.5 was discovered to contain an authenticated reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability via the component /api/core/mod.rs.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🦀crates.iovaultwardenall versions1.32.5cargo update -p vaultwarden --precise 1.32.5

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
vaultwardendani-garcia
1 version
1.32.5

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency
  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for vaultwarden, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update vaultwarden to 1.32.5 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2024-55226 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Escape or sanitise the affected output on the server side rather than relying on client-side filtering, and add a Content-Security-Policy that blocks inline script execution so injected markup cannot run even if it reaches the page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Vaultwarden v1.32.5 was discovered to contain an authenticated reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability via the component /api/core/mod.rs.
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

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CVE-2024-55226: vaultwarden XSS — Fixed in 1.32.5