CVE-2023-54409 PUBLISHED

Frappe before 13.46.1 XSS via html2text Weak Sanitization

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 12.10.2026 Published: 12.10.2026 Updated: 13.10.2026

Frappe before 13.46.1 and 14.x before 14.20.0 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability because the html2text function weakly sanitizes user input. Authenticated attackers can supply crafted HTML that is insufficiently sanitized by html2text, executing scripts in the browsers of users who view the rendered content.

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 5.9

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Network	Confidentiality	High	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	High	Integrity	None	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	Present	Availability	None	Availability	None
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	Passive

CVSS 4.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.8

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	High	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	Required	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	frappe
Product	frappe
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 13.46.1 (excl.) affected from 14.0.0-beta.1 to 14.20.0 (excl.) Version 13.46.1 is unaffected Version 14.20.0 is unaffected

Credits

maharshivpatel analyst
ankush finder

References

Problem Types

Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) CWE