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CVE-2022-24799: Cross Site Scripting in Wire Webapp
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2022-04-20 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-79
Description
wire-webapp is the web application interface for the wire messaging service. Insufficient escaping in markdown “code highlighting” in the wire-webapp resulted in the possibility of injecting and executing arbitrary HTML code and thus also JavaScript. If a user receives and views such a malicious message, arbitrary code is injected and executed in the context of the victim. This allows the attacker to fully control the user account. Wire-desktop clients that are connected to a vulnerable wire-webapp version are also vulnerable to this attack. The issue has been fixed in wire-webapp 2022-03-30-production.0 and is already deployed on all Wire managed services. On-premise instances of wire-webapp need to be updated to docker tag 2022-03-30-production.0-v0.29.2-0-d144552 or wire-server 2022-03-30 (chart/4.8.0), so that their applications are no longer affected. There are no known workarounds for this issue. ### Patches * The issue has been fixed in wire-webapp **2022-03-30-production.0** and is already deployed on all Wire managed services. * On-premise instances of wire-webapp need to be updated to docker tag **2022-03-30-production.0-v0.29.2-0-d144552** or wire-server **2022-03-30 (chart/4.8.0)**, so that their applications are no longer affected. ### Workarounds * No workarounds known ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory feel free to email us at [vulnerability-report@wire.com](mailto:vulnerability-report@wire.com) ### Credits We thank [Posix](https://twitter.com/po6ix) for reporting this vulnerability
Affected products
- wireapp wire-webapp: 2016-07-29-17-00, 2016-08-04-15-44, 2016-08-23-09-31, 2016-08-24-10-10, 2016-08-29-14-54, 2016-09-08-15-38 (+356)
References
- https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/commit/d14455252a949dc83f36d45e2babbdd9328af2a4
- https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/releases/tag/2022-03-30-production.0
- https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/security/advisories/GHSA-5568-rfh8-vmhq
- https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/commit/d14455252a949dc83f36d45e2babbdd9328af2a4
- https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/releases/tag/2022-03-30-production.0
- https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/security/advisories/GHSA-5568-rfh8-vmhq
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