Prompt Injection triggered XSS vulnerability in Khoj Obsidian, Desktop and Web clients
Priority HIGH 66CWE-80Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting, Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-80 and CWE-77.
Summary
Khoj is an application that creates personal AI agents. The Khoj Obsidian, Desktop and Web clients inadequately sanitize the AI model's response and user inputs. This can trigger Cross Site Scripting (XSS) via Prompt Injection from untrusted documents either indexed by the user on Khoj or read by Khoj from the internet when the user invokes the /online command. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.13.0.
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00573 47th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix Fixed khoj (khoj-ai): 1.13.0
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA khoj (khoj-ai) Fixed in 1.13.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-25639
References
More khoj-ai Khoj vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-42661 Khoj has an IDOR in Notion OAuth Flow Enables Index Poisoning CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1
- TI-2024-29045 Khoj Vulnerable to Stored Cross-site Scripting In Automate (Preview feature) CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
Sources
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