CVE-2026-30862
Critical Stored XSS & Privilege Escalation in Appsmith
- Published
- Mar 9, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 10, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Evidence observed
- Aug 25, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 23.7%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
Appsmith is a platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Prior to 1.96, a Critical Stored XSS vulnerability exists in the Table Widget (TableWidgetV2). The root cause is a lack of HTML sanitization in the React component rendering pipeline, allowing malicious attributes to be interpolated into the DOM. By leveraging the "Invite Users" feature, an attacker with a regular user account ([email protected]) can force a System Administrator to execute a high-privileged API call (/api/v1/admin/env), resulting in a Full Administrative Account Takeover. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.96.
Sources
1Proof-of-concept demonstrating stored XSS in Appsmith Table Widget leading to vertical privilege escalation and full admin takeover via XSS-to-CSRF attack.
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