GHSA-m8f9-9whg-f4xr

Suggest an improvement
Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m8f9-9whg-f4xr
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/05/GHSA-m8f9-9whg-f4xr/GHSA-m8f9-9whg-f4xr.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-m8f9-9whg-f4xr
Aliases
Published
2026-05-14T20:17:58Z
Modified
2026-07-13T16:43:15Z
Severity
  • 8.7 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Open WebUI has stored XSS via attacker-controlled file extension in /api/v1/audio/transcriptions
Details

Summary

The audio transcription upload endpoint takes the file extension from the user-supplied filename and saves the file under CACHE_DIR/audio/transcriptions/.. The /cache/{path} route serves these files via FileResponse, which sets Content-Type from the on-disk extension and emits no Content-Disposition. A verified user with the default-on chat.stt permission can upload a polyglot WAV+HTML file named pwn.html and trick any other user into opening the resulting URL — the response comes back as text/html and any embedded

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-434",
        "CWE-646",
        "CWE-79"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2026-05-14T20:17:58Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  "2026-05-15T22:16:54Z",
    "severity":  "HIGH"
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / open-webui

Package

Name
open-webui
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Purl
pkg:pypi/open-webui

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.9.3

Affected versions

0.*
0.1.124
0.1.125
0.2.0
0.2.1
0.2.2
0.2.3
0.2.4
0.2.5
0.3.0
0.3.1
0.3.2
0.3.3
0.3.4
0.3.5
0.3.6
0.3.7
0.3.8
0.3.9
0.3.10
0.3.12
0.3.13
0.3.14
0.3.15
0.3.16
0.3.17.dev2
0.3.17.dev3
0.3.17.dev4
0.3.17.dev5
0.3.17
0.3.18
0.3.19
0.3.20
0.3.21
0.3.22
0.3.23
0.3.24
0.3.25
0.3.26
0.3.27.dev1
0.3.27.dev2
0.3.27.dev3
0.3.27
0.3.28
0.3.29
0.3.30.dev1
0.3.30.dev2
0.3.30
0.3.31.dev1
0.3.31
0.3.32
0.3.33.dev1
0.3.33
0.3.34
0.3.35
0.4.0.dev1
0.4.0.dev2
0.4.0
0.4.1
0.4.2
0.4.3
0.4.4
0.4.5
0.4.6.dev1
0.4.6
0.4.7
0.4.8
0.5.0.dev1
0.5.0.dev2
0.5.0
0.5.1
0.5.2
0.5.3.dev1
0.5.3
0.5.4
0.5.5
0.5.6
0.5.7
0.5.8
0.5.9
0.5.10
0.5.11
0.5.12
0.5.13
0.5.14
0.5.15
0.5.16
0.5.17
0.5.18
0.5.19
0.5.20
0.6.0
0.6.1
0.6.2
0.6.3
0.6.4
0.6.5
0.6.6.dev1
0.6.6
0.6.7
0.6.8
0.6.9
0.6.10
0.6.11
0.6.12
0.6.13
0.6.14
0.6.15
0.6.16
0.6.18
0.6.19
0.6.20
0.6.21
0.6.22
0.6.23
0.6.24
0.6.25
0.6.26.dev1
0.6.26
0.6.27
0.6.28
0.6.29
0.6.30
0.6.31
0.6.32
0.6.33
0.6.34
0.6.35
0.6.36
0.6.37
0.6.38
0.6.39
0.6.40
0.6.41
0.6.42
0.6.43
0.7.0
0.7.1
0.7.2
0.8.0
0.8.1
0.8.2
0.8.3
0.8.4
0.8.5
0.8.6
0.8.7
0.8.8
0.8.9
0.8.10
0.8.11
0.8.12
0.9.0
0.9.1
0.9.2

Database specific

last_known_affected_version_range 
"<= 0.9.2"
source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/05/GHSA-m8f9-9whg-f4xr/GHSA-m8f9-9whg-f4xr.json"