CVE-2024-36110: Cross-site scripting in ansibleguy-webui

Severity: high (CVSS 8.2 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-05-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

ansibleguy-webui is an open source WebUI for using Ansible. Multiple forms in versions < 0.0.21 allowed injection of HTML elements. These are returned to the user after executing job actions and thus evaluated by the browser. These issues have been addressed in version 0.0.21 (0.0.21.post2 on pypi). Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for these issues.

Affected products

ansibleguy webui: before 0.0.21 — fixed in 0.0.21

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ansibleguy webui 0.0.21. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/ansibleguy/webui/commit/7737b47e7f7ddbfec7b1418c724598363718d522
https://github.com/ansibleguy/webui/files/15358522/Report.pdf
https://github.com/ansibleguy/webui/issues/44
https://github.com/ansibleguy/webui/security/advisories/GHSA-927p-xrc2-x2gj
https://github.com/ansibleguy/webui/commit/7737b47e7f7ddbfec7b1418c724598363718d522
https://github.com/ansibleguy/webui/files/15358522/Report.pdf
https://github.com/ansibleguy/webui/issues/44
https://github.com/ansibleguy/webui/security/advisories/GHSA-927p-xrc2-x2gj

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