TI-2026-23691 Aliases CVE-2026-30862

Critical Stored XSS & Privilege Escalation in Appsmith

HIGH 74CWE-79Published 2026-03-09 · Updated 2026-03-10

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: Required
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: Fixed

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

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00359 29th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD

Fix Fixed appsmith (appsmithorg): 1.96

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

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
appsmithorg	appsmith	before 1.96	1.96	Patch available	CNA

appsmith Vendorappsmithorg Affected before 1.96 Fixed in 1.96 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:appsmith:appsmith::::::::	before 1.96	Vulnerable	appsmithorg

cpe:2.3:a:appsmith:appsmith:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 1.96 Vulnerable ·appsmithorg

Remediation

Fix · CNA appsmith (appsmithorg) Fixed in 1.96

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-30862

References

Exploit 1

https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith/security/advisories/GHSA-5hw4-whxv-6794

TI-2026-40018 Appsmith: Caddy admin API exposed without authentication CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
TI-2026-18312 Account Takeover Vulnerability in Appsmith CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.7
TI-2026-36948 Appsmith: RCE via Supervisord XML-RPC Admin Interface Exposed via /supervisor Caddy Route CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.9
TI-2024-34357 AppSmith Community 1.8.3 before 1.46 allows SSRF via New DataSource for application/json… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.5
TI-2022-03744 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in appsmithorg/appsmith CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
TI-2026-06406 Cross-site scripting in appsmithorg Appsmith CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.3

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Sources

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