Reflected XSS in Goobi viewer IIIF Auth authorization endpoints
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Code execution, Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-1336 and CWE-79.
Summary
intranda goobi-viewer-core from 25.08 before 26.05 accepts an origin parameter in the IIIF Auth 2.0 login and token endpoints without validation. The value is written into the Content-Security-Policy frame-ancestors header and into an HTML response without escaping, which allows reflected cross-site scripting (CWE-79). A remote attacker can make a user's browser run script by tricking the user into opening a crafted link.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-30
Description from the CNA
The Goobi viewer is a web application that allows digitised material to be displayed in a web browser. From version 25.08 to before version 26.05, the IIIF Auth 2.0 endpoints auth/login and auth/token in AuthorizationFlowResource accept an origin query parameter without validation and then (1) embed it into the Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors response header and (2) embed it into an HTML response body as a JavaScript single-quoted postMessage argument. Because the attacker controls both the login and token calls that initiate the flow, the unescaped value yields reflected XSS. This issue has been patched in version 26.05.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- 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
Remediation
Upgrade intranda goobi-viewer-core to version 26.05, which contains the patch.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-30
- Fix · CNA goobi-viewer-core (intranda) Fixed in 26.05
Timeline
- 2026-10-23 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-55486
- 2026-10-30 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
More intranda vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-79924 Path traversal in Goobi viewer lets malicious servers write files CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-79923 Unauthenticated SSRF and local file inclusion in Goobi viewer CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-32930 Goobi viewer: Unauthenticated Solr Streaming Expression Proxy CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2020-11897 Path traversal in Goobi viewer Core CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6
- TI-2026-79920 Predictable password reset token in Goobi viewer CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2026-79935 Goobi viewer WebSocket endpoints lack authentication checks CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
Sources
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