CVE-2026-88055

AnythingLLM: Stored XSS Due to Unescaped Server-Side HTML Concatenation in MetaGenerator

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Sep 10, 2026
Updated
Sep 10, 2026
Reserved
Sep 9, 2026

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Description

AnythingLLM is an application that turns pieces of content into context that any LLM can use as references during chatting. In 1.16.1 and earlier, the manager role can store meta_page_title or meta_page_favicon through /api/admin/system-preferences, and MetaGenerator inserts those values into production homepage HTML without escaping attribute values or text content. The values pass unchanged through server/models/systemSettings.js and reach MetaGenerator.generate() in server/index.js. #assembleMeta() in server/utils/boot/MetaGenerator.js concatenates the stored values into HTML. When an administrator visits the homepage /, injected JavaScript can read the administrator JWT and use it to create API keys, access or modify workspace and chat data, delete users, and perform other administrator actions. server/endpoints/admin.js accepts the manager-controlled settings before server/models/systemSettings.js returns them unchanged. No fixed version is available as of this review.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

ProductVersions
anything-llmMintplex-Labs
  • <= 1.16.1Affected

References

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