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Medium · 6.4 CVE-2025-32391 EUVD-2025-10682

HedgeDoc allows XSS possibility through malicious SVG uploads

Published Apr 10, 2025 · Updated Apr 10, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

HedgeDoc is an open source, real-time, collaborative, markdown notes application. Prior to 1.10.3, a malicious SVG file uploaded to HedgeDoc results in the possibility of XSS when opened in a new tab instead of the editor itself. The XSS is possible by exploiting the JSONP capabilities of GitHub Gist embeddings. Only instances with the local filesystem upload backend or special configurations, where the uploads are served from the same domain as HedgeDoc, are vulnerable. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.10.3. When upgrading to HedgeDoc 1.10.3 is not possible, instance owners could add the following headers for all routes under /uploads as a first-countermeasure: Content-Disposition: attachment and Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'. Additionally, the external URLs in the script-src attribute of the Content-Security-Policy header should be removed.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
hedgedoc hedgedoc < 1.10.3 —

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