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CVE-2024-43396: Khoj Vulnerable to Stored Cross-site Scripting In Automate (Preview feature)

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-08-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Khoj is an application that creates personal AI agents. The Automation feature allows a user to insert arbitrary HTML inside the task instructions, resulting in a Stored XSS. The q parameter for the /api/automation endpoint does not get correctly sanitized when rendered on the page, resulting in the ability of users to inject arbitrary HTML/JS. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.0.

Affected products

• khoj-ai khoj: before 1.15.0 — fixed in 1.15.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: khoj-ai khoj 1.15.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/commit/1c7a562880eeb7354325545d2cf6c5d1d1134812
• https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/commit/55be90cdd2f9d6a09c8bf9ceea52fc36b9201626
• https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/security/advisories/GHSA-cf72-vg59-4j4h

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