CVE-2023-46127: Frappe vulnerable to HTML injection by any Desk user

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 41.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-10-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Frappe is a full-stack web application framework that uses Python and MariaDB on the server side and an integrated client side library. A malicious Frappe user with desk access could create documents containing HTML payloads allowing HTML Injection. This vulnerability has been patched in version 14.49.0.

Affected products

frappe: before 14.49.0 — fixed in 14.49.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: frappe 14.49.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/frappe/frappe/commit/3dc5d2fcc7561dde181ba953009fe6e39d64e900
https://github.com/frappe/frappe/pull/22339
https://github.com/frappe/frappe/security/advisories/GHSA-j2w9-8xrr-7g98
https://github.com/frappe/frappe/commit/3dc5d2fcc7561dde181ba953009fe6e39d64e900
https://github.com/frappe/frappe/pull/22339
https://github.com/frappe/frappe/security/advisories/GHSA-j2w9-8xrr-7g98

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