CVE-2026-8467 PUBLISHED

Unauthenticated remote code execution via HEEx template injection in phoenix_storybook playground

Assigner: EEF
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 20.05.2026 Updated: 20.05.2026

Code Injection vulnerability in phenixdigital phoenix_storybook allows unauthenticated remote code execution via unsanitized attribute value interpolation in HEEx template generation.

The psb-assign WebSocket event handler in 'Elixir.PhoenixStorybook.Story.PlaygroundPreviewLive':handle_event/3 accepts arbitrary attribute names and values from unauthenticated clients. These values are passed to 'Elixir.PhoenixStorybook.Helpers.ExtraAssignsHelpers':handle_set_variation_assign/3, which stores them verbatim. When rendering, 'Elixir.PhoenixStorybook.Rendering.ComponentRenderer':attributes_markup/1 interpolates binary attribute values directly into a HEEx template string as name="<val>" without escaping double quotes or HEEx expression delimiters. An attacker can supply a value containing a closing quote followed by a HEEx expression block (e.g. foo" injected={EXPR} bar="), which causes EXPR to be treated as an inline Elixir expression. The resulting template is compiled via EEx.compile_string/2 and executed via Code.eval_quoted_with_env/3 with full Kernel imports and no sandbox, giving the attacker arbitrary code execution on the server.

This issue affects phoenix_storybook from 0.5.0 before 1.1.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CVSS Score: 9.5

Product Status

Vendor phenixdigital
Product phoenix_storybook
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.5.0 to 1.1.0 (excl.)
Vendor phenixdigital
Product phoenix_storybook
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from e35379dfe2ef1a71b141899e36f431017c55265d to 56ab8464d4375fa52db806148a06cce126ad481d (excl.)

Credits

  • Nick Mykhailyshyn finder
  • Cenk Kücük analyst
  • Christian Blavier remediation developer
  • Jonatan Männchen coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-242 Code Injection