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High · 7.6 CVE-2022-21650 EUVD-2022-26871

Stored XSS via html file upload in convos

Published Jan 4, 2022 · Updated Apr 22, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Convos is an open source multi-user chat that runs in a web browser. You can't use SVG extension in Convos' chat window, but you can upload a file with an .html extension. By uploading an SVG file with an html extension the upload filter can be bypassed. This causes Stored XSS. Also, after uploading a file the XSS attack is triggered upon a user viewing the file. Through this vulnerability, an attacker is capable to execute malicious scripts. Users are advised to update as soon as possible.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
convos-chat convos >= 6.48, < 6.52 —

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