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TI-2023-24576 Aliases CVE-2023-45815GHSA-cr45-98w9-gwqx

Cross-site scripting in ArchiveBox

Priority MEDIUM 64CWE-79Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

ArchiveBox is an open source self-hosted web archiving system. Any users who are using the `wget` extractor and view the content it outputs. The impact is potentially severe if you are logged in to the ArchiveBox admin site in the same browser session and view an archived malicious page designed to target your ArchiveBox instance. Malicious Javascript could potentially act using your logged-in admin credentials and add/remove/modify snapshots, add/remove/modify ArchiveBox users, and generally do anything an admin user could do. The impact is less severe for non-logged-in users, as malicious Javascript cannot *modify* any archives, but it can still *read* all the other archived content by fetching the snapshot index and iterating through it. Because all of ArchiveBox's archived content is served from the same host and port as the admin panel, when archived pages are viewed the JS executes in the same context as all the other archived pages (and the admin panel), defeating most of the browser's usual CORS/CSRF security protections and leading to this issue. Version 0.9.0 contains a patch. As a mitigation for this issue would be to disable the wget extractor by setting `archivebox config --set SAVE_WGET=False`, ensure you are always logged out, or serve only a [static HTML version](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Publishing-Your-Archive#2-export-and-host-it-as-static-html) of your archive.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0081 57th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix Fixed ArchiveBox (ArchiveBox): 0.9.0archivebox (PyPI): 0.9.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
ArchiveBoxArchiveBoxbefore 0.9.00.9.0Patch availableCNA
—archivebox (PyPI)before 0.9.00.9.0Patch availableGHSA-cr45-98w9-gwqx
  • ArchiveBox VendorArchiveBox Affected before 0.9.0 Fixed in 0.9.0 Patch available CNA
  • archivebox (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 0.9.0 Fixed in 0.9.0 Patch available GHSA-cr45-98w9-gwqx

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:archivebox:archivebox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*up to 0.6.2VulnerableArchiveBox
  • cpe:2.3:a:archivebox:archivebox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions up to 0.6.2 Vulnerable ·ArchiveBox

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA ArchiveBox (ArchiveBox) Fixed in 0.9.0
  • Fix · GHSA-cr45-98w9-gwqx archivebox (PyPI) Fixed in 0.9.0 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-45815
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-cr45-98w9-gwqx

References

  • TI-2026-30881 ArchiveBox Vulnerable to RCE via unvalidated per-crawl config overrides in AddView CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3

Sources