CVE-2026-44541

Fides: DOM-based XSS vulnerability in fides.js via fides_description override

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Jun 8, 2026
Updated: Jun 9, 2026
Reserved: May 6, 2026

Description

Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform. From version 2.33.0 to before version 2.84.5, there is a DOM-based XSS vulnerability in fides.js via the fides_description override. This issue has been patched in version 2.84.5.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.0 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
fidesethyca	>= 2.33.0, < 2.84.5Affected

References

https://github.com/ethyca/fides/security/advisories/GHSA-5qrq-9645-g5g2
https://github.com/ethyca/fides/commit/67e43b10b1096c7f84d5c0eeba08ee3b7846b7cd
https://github.com/ethyca/fides/releases/tag/2.84.5

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