{"id":"GHSA-6vxv-wg6j-5qwp","aliases":["GO-2026-5193"],"status":"published","title":"Gogs: XSS in .ipynb files renderer due to outdated notebookjs","description":"### Summary\n\nGogs renders Jupyter notebook files (`.ipynb`) using [jsvine/notebookjs](https://github.com/jsvine/notebookjs), but the version is outdated, missing patches for known XSS vulnerabilities.\n\n### Details\n\nGogs uses version 0.4.2 of notebookjs to render Jupyter notebook files:\n\nhttps://github.com/gogs/gogs/blob/7297aee50d4c115836c7de8a3a233daaef87b911/templates/base/head.tmpl#L47\n\nThe latest version of [jsvine/notebookjs](https://github.com/jsvine/notebookjs) is 0.8.3, patching many XSS vulnerabilities in its releases. The proof of concept below shows an example working payload that renders HTML through Markdown.\n\n### PoC\n\n1. Create a new repository\n2. Create a file inside the repository named `xss.ipynb` and give it the following content:\n\n```json\n{\"cells\": [{\"cell_type\": \"markdown\", \"metadata\": {}, \"source\": [\"\u003cimg src=x onerror=\\\"alert(origin)\\\"\u003e\"]}], \"metadata\": {}, \"nbformat\": 4, \"nbformat_minor\": 2}\n```\n\n\u003cimg width=\"1054\" height=\"208\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/49b7f33c-c4df-4537-99e9-b1ea74f2c6de\" /\u003e\n\n3. Save the file and view the file in Gogs. Notice that the XSS popup triggers:\n\n\u003cimg width=\"1317\" height=\"407\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3b18d870-7194-41b0-92db-687e952abc07\" /\u003e\n\n### Impact\n\nAny user with rights to create repositories can create XSS payloads that take over the victim's account when visited. Either through their own exploration of the files or by directly linking them the vulnerable URL.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":8.5,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high","from":"ghsa"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-1395","CWE-80"],"published":"2026-06-19T21:42:52Z","modified":"2026-08-13T13:44:48Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"Go","package":"gogs.io/gogs","fixed_in":["0.14.3"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"Go","package":"gogs.io/gogs","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.14.3"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Go","package":"gogs.io/gogs","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.14.3"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Go","package":"gogs.io/gogs","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/gogs/gogs/security/advisories/GHSA-6vxv-wg6j-5qwp","tags":["web","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6vxv-wg6j-5qwp"},{"url":"https://github.com/gogs/gogs","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-6vxv-wg6j-5qwp","title":"Gogs: XSS in .ipynb files renderer due to outdated notebookjs","description":"### Summary\n\nGogs renders Jupyter notebook files (`.ipynb`) using [jsvine/notebookjs](https://github.com/jsvine/notebookjs), but the version is outdated, missing patches for known XSS vulnerabilities.\n\n### Details\n\nGogs uses version 0.4.2 of notebookjs to render Jupyter notebook files:\n\nhttps://github.com/gogs/gogs/blob/7297aee50d4c115836c7de8a3a233daaef87b911/templates/base/head.tmpl#L47\n\nThe latest version of [jsvine/notebookjs](https://github.com/jsvine/notebookjs) is 0.8.3, patching many XSS vulnerabilities in its releases. The proof of concept below shows an example working payload that renders HTML through Markdown.\n\n### PoC\n\n1. Create a new repository\n2. Create a file inside the repository named `xss.ipynb` and give it the following content:\n\n```json\n{\"cells\": [{\"cell_type\": \"markdown\", \"metadata\": {}, \"source\": [\"\u003cimg src=x onerror=\\\"alert(origin)\\\"\u003e\"]}], \"metadata\": {}, \"nbformat\": 4, \"nbformat_minor\": 2}\n```\n\n\u003cimg width=\"1054\" height=\"208\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/49b7f33c-c4df-4537-99e9-b1ea74f2c6de\" /\u003e\n\n3. Save the file and view the file in Gogs. Notice that the XSS popup triggers:\n\n\u003cimg width=\"1317\" height=\"407\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3b18d870-7194-41b0-92db-687e952abc07\" /\u003e\n\n### Impact\n\nAny user with rights to create repositories can create XSS payloads that take over the victim's account when visited. Either through their own exploration of the files or by directly linking them the vulnerable URL.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-19T21:42:52Z","modified":"2026-08-13T13:44:48Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":8.5,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-80","CWE-1395"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:41:00.097339Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-6vxv-wg6j-5qwp","title":"Gogs: XSS in .ipynb files renderer due to outdated notebookjs","description":"### Summary\n\nGogs renders Jupyter notebook files (`.ipynb`) using [jsvine/notebookjs](https://github.com/jsvine/notebookjs), but the version is outdated, missing patches for known XSS vulnerabilities.\n\n### Details\n\nGogs uses version 0.4.2 of notebookjs to render Jupyter notebook files:\n\nhttps://github.com/gogs/gogs/blob/7297aee50d4c115836c7de8a3a233daaef87b911/templates/base/head.tmpl#L47\n\nThe latest version of [jsvine/notebookjs](https://github.com/jsvine/notebookjs) is 0.8.3, patching many XSS vulnerabilities in its releases. The proof of concept below shows an example working payload that renders HTML through Markdown.\n\n### PoC\n\n1. Create a new repository\n2. Create a file inside the repository named `xss.ipynb` and give it the following content:\n\n```json\n{\"cells\": [{\"cell_type\": \"markdown\", \"metadata\": {}, \"source\": [\"\u003cimg src=x onerror=\\\"alert(origin)\\\"\u003e\"]}], \"metadata\": {}, \"nbformat\": 4, \"nbformat_minor\": 2}\n```\n\n\u003cimg width=\"1054\" height=\"208\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/49b7f33c-c4df-4537-99e9-b1ea74f2c6de\" /\u003e\n\n3. Save the file and view the file in Gogs. Notice that the XSS popup triggers:\n\n\u003cimg width=\"1317\" height=\"407\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3b18d870-7194-41b0-92db-687e952abc07\" /\u003e\n\n### Impact\n\nAny user with rights to create repositories can create XSS payloads that take over the victim's account when visited. Either through their own exploration of the files or by directly linking them the vulnerable URL.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-19T21:42:52Z","modified":"2026-06-25T19:56:40.274520163Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":8.5,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-1395","CWE-80"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:40.308826Z"},{"id":"GO-2026-5193","title":"Gogs: XSS in .ipynb files renderer due to outdated notebookjs in gogs.io/gogs","description":"Gogs: XSS in .ipynb files renderer due to outdated notebookjs in gogs.io/gogs.\n\nNOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions.\n\n(If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.)\n\nThe additional affected modules and versions are: gogs.io/gogs before v0.14.3.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-25T18:43:15Z","modified":"2026-06-25T19:45:12.775957921Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:47:02.556545Z"}]}}