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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in directusGHSA-xmjj-3c76-5w84

HIGHFix: directus/directus#12020

GHSA-xmjj-3c76-5w84 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in directus. A fix is available for directus — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Also known asCVE-2022-24814
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 9, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

  • A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
  • 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 GHSA-xmjj-3c76-5w84.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
1.0%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs64th percentile — riskier than 64% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.51%1.02%1.53%0.4%1.0%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

How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.

12other npm packages depend on this — each one inherits the vulnerability until it's patched upstream
directusnpm
33Kdownloads / week

Description

Impact

Unauthorized JavaScript can be executed by inserting an iframe into the rich text html interface that links to a file uploaded HTML file that loads another uploaded JS file in its script tag. This satisfies the regular content security policy header, which in turn allows the file to run any arbitrary JS.

Patches

This was resolved in https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/12020 which is released in 9.7.0

Workarounds

You can disable the live embed in the WYSIWYG by adding { "media_live_embeds": false } to the Options Overrides option of the Rich Text HTML interface.

References

https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/12020

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
📦npmdirectusall versions9.7.0npm install directus@9.7.0

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
directusrangerstudio
< 9.7.0
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 directus, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update directus to 9.7.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-xmjj-3c76-5w84 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

### Impact Unauthorized JavaScript can be executed by inserting an iframe into the rich text html interface that links to a file uploaded HTML file that loads another uploaded JS file in its script tag. This satisfies the regular content security policy header, which in turn allows the file to run any arbitrary JS. ### Patches This was resolved in https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/12020 which is released in 9.7.0 ### Workarounds You can disable the live embed in the WYSIWYG by adding `{ "media_live_embeds": false }` to the _Options Overrides_ option of the Rich Text HTML interface
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