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CVE-2024-39123

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 23.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-07-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

In janeczku Calibre-Web 0.6.0 to 0.6.21, the edit_book_comments function is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) due to improper sanitization performed by the clean_string function. The vulnerability arises from the way the clean_string function handles HTML sanitization.

Affected products

• janeczku/calibre-web: from 0.6.0 through 0.6.21

References

• https://github.com/pentesttoolscom/vulnerability-research/tree/master/CVE-2024-39123
• https://github.com/pentesttoolscom/vulnerability-research/tree/master/CVE-2024-39123

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