Medium

Cross-site Scripting in peertube

  • Disclosed: 20.09.2021
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

peertube is vulnerable to Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'). It was found that one could upload a SVG image and then send the url of that to other users and when they open the link we can get their complete session keys as the session keys stored in local storage and with Javascript easily can be stolen by attackers.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package peertube < 3.4.0 3.4.0

References

CVSS score 6.1/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79
Platform
npm
Package
peertube
Disclosed
20.09.2021
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-f2c5-997w-7f5c - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: peertube

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