crawl4ai before 0.9.3 Cross-Site Scripting via innerHTML
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Active
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
crawl4ai before 0.9.3 contains a DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Docker Playground UI that assigns untrusted crawl results to element.innerHTML. Attackers can craft malicious PDFs with event-handler markup to execute JavaScript in the Playground origin and steal API tokens from sessionStorage for authenticated API abuse.
Why it matters now
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 crawl4ai (unclecode) Fixed in 0.9.3
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
unclecode crawl4ai 0.9.3
5 records Highest priority Priority HIGH 2 HIGH, 2 MEDIUM, 1 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-62075 crawl4ai before 0.9.3 Arbitrary File Write via PDFContentScrapingStrategyPriority HIGH 77
- TI-2026-62078 Crawl4AI before 0.9.3 SSRF via PDFContentScrapingStrategyPriority HIGH 69
- TI-2026-62076 Crawl4AI before 0.9.3 Denial of Service via PDFContentScrapingStrategyPriority MEDIUM 44
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-91942
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-xjmx-xxmr-qf54
References
More unclecode vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-38760 Crawl4AI: AST Sandbox Escape via gi_frame.f_back Chain - Pre-Auth RCE in Docker API CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-40630 Crawl4AI - Authentication Bypass via Hardcoded JWT Signing Key CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-82637 Denial of service in Crawl4AI via unbounded CrawlerRunConfig delay fields CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-62075 crawl4ai before 0.9.3 Arbitrary File Write via PDFContentScrapingStrategy CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-82640 Blind SSRF in Crawl4AI Docker server via CacheValidator freshness check CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
- TI-2026-82638 Untrusted model loading in Crawl4AI via CosineStrategy model_name CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.7
Sources
- CVE-2026-91942 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-91942 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-xjmx-xxmr-qf54 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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