CVE-2024-39123

MEDIUM

janeczku Calibre-Web 0.6.0-0.6.21 - Cross-Site Scripting in Edit Book Comments

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2024-39123. PoCs published by theexploiters.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository provides a detailed technical writeup for CVE-2024-39123, a stored XSS vulnerability in Calibre-web 0.6.21. It includes steps to reproduce the vulnerability, impact analysis, and mitigation recommendations.

Description

In janeczku Calibre-Web 0.6.0 to 0.6.21, the edit_book_comments function is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) due to improper sanitization performed by the clean_string function. The vulnerability arises from the way the clean_string function handles HTML sanitization.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WRITEUP 2 stars
by theexploiters · poc
https://github.com/theexploiters/CVE-2024-39123-Exploit

This repository provides a detailed technical writeup for CVE-2024-39123, a stored XSS vulnerability in Calibre-web 0.6.21. It includes steps to reproduce the vulnerability, impact analysis, and mitigation recommendations.

Classification
Writeup 95%
Attack Type
Xss
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Calibre-web 0.6.21
Auth required
Prerequisites: Valid user account · Access to the book upload functionality
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 18, 2026 Full analysis →

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 5.4
EPSS 0.1645
EPSS Percentile 95.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (2)
janeczku/calibre-web 0.6.0 - 0.6.21
pypi/calibreweb 0.6.0PyPI
Published Jul 19, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026