CVE-2026-48060

Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface ASGI framework. Prior to version 2.20.0, Litestar instances which use a template engine in conjunction with CSRF protection are vulnerable to HTML Injection which can be escalated to Cross Site Scripting due to the contents of the CSRF cookie...

CVE-2026-48060 Litestar: HTML Injection Through CSRF Token

Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface ASGI framework. Prior to version 2.20.0, Litestar instances which use a template engine in conjunction with CSRF protection are vulnerable to HTML Injection which can be escalated to Cross Site Scripting due to the contents of the CSRF cookie...

CVE-2026-48060

Litestar (Python ASGI framework) is affected when using a template engine with CSRF protection configured inline with the templating docs. Prior to version 2.20.0, the csrftoken contents could be injected into rendered HTML due to a lack of escaping, enabling HTML injection and potential XSS. The...

CVE-2026-48060 Litestar: HTML Injection Through CSRF Token

Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface ASGI framework. Prior to version 2.20.0, Litestar instances which use a template engine in conjunction with CSRF protection are vulnerable to HTML Injection which can be escalated to Cross Site Scripting due to the contents of the CSRF cookie...

Litestar has HTML Injection Through its CSRF Token

OverviewLitestar instances which use a template engine in conjunction with CSRF protection are vulnerable to HTML Injection which can be escalated to Cross Site Scripting due to the contents of the CSRF cookie being excluded from automatic escaping by the template engine when configured inline wi...

PYSEC-2026-2604 Litestar has HTML Injection Through its CSRF Token

Overview Litestar instances which use a template engine in conjunction with CSRF protection are vulnerable to HTML Injection which can be escalated to Cross Site Scripting due to the contents of the CSRF cookie being excluded from automatic escaping by the template engine when configured inline...

PYSEC-2026-2603 Litestar: AllowedHostsMiddleware bypasses host validation via client-controlled X-Forwarded-Host header

Summary AllowedHostsMiddleware trusts the X-Forwarded-Host header as a fallback when the Host header is absent. Since X-Forwarded-Host is a client-controllable header, an attacker can bypass the allowed hosts validation by omitting the Host header and supplying an X-Forwarded-Host header set to a...

PYSEC-2026-2605 Litestar and Starlite vulnerable to Path Traversal

Summary Local File Inclusion via Path Traversal in LiteStar Static File Serving A Local File Inclusion LFI vulnerability has been discovered in the static file serving component of LiteStar. This vulnerability allows attackers to exploit path traversal flaws, enabling unauthorized access to...

PT-2026-59258

Overview Litestar instances which use a template engine in conjunction with CSRF protection are vulnerable to HTML Injection which can be escalated to Cross Site Scripting due to the contents of the CSRF cookie being excluded from automatic escaping by the template engine when configured inline...

PYSEC-2026-1553 Litestar X-Forwarded-For Header Spoofing Vulnerability Enables Rate Limit Evasion

While testing Litestar's RateLimitMiddleware, I discovered that rate limits can be completely bypassed by manipulating the X-Forwarded-For header. This renders IP-based rate limiting ineffective against determined attackers. The Problem Litestar's RateLimitMiddleware uses cachekeyfromrequest to...

Litestar and Starlite vulnerable to Path Traversal

SummaryLocal File Inclusion via Path Traversal in LiteStar Static File ServingA Local File Inclusion LFI vulnerability has been discovered in the static file serving component of LiteStar. This vulnerability allows attackers to exploit path traversal flaws, enabling unauthorized access to sensiti...

PYSEC-2026-1552 Litestar and Starlite vulnerable to Path Traversal

Summary Local File Inclusion via Path Traversal in LiteStar Static File Serving A Local File Inclusion LFI vulnerability has been discovered in the static file serving component of LiteStar. This vulnerability allows attackers to exploit path traversal flaws, enabling unauthorized access to...

PYSEC-2026-1944 Litestar allows unbounded resource consumption (DoS vulnerability)

Summary Litestar offers multiple methods to return a parsed representation of the request body, as well as extractors that rely on those parsers to map request content to structured data types. Multiple of those parsers do not have size limits when reading the request body into memory, which allo...

Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision

Overview litestar is a Litestar - A production-ready, highly performant, extensible ASGI API Framework Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision through the AllowedHostsMiddleware in the host validation middleware. An attacker can bypa...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Overview litestar is a Litestar - A production-ready, highly performant, extensible ASGI API Framework Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting XSS through the Template response rendering path in the HTML template components. An attacker can inject arbitrary HTML o...

Litestar has HTML Injection Through its CSRF Token

Overview Litestar instances which use a template engine in conjunction with CSRF protection are vulnerable to HTML Injection which can be escalated to Cross Site Scripting due to the contents of the CSRF cookie being excluded from automatic escaping by the template engine when configured inline...

GHSA-542P-WVX7-72M4 Litestar has HTML Injection Through its CSRF Token

Overview Litestar instances which use a template engine in conjunction with CSRF protection are vulnerable to HTML Injection which can be escalated to Cross Site Scripting due to the contents of the CSRF cookie being excluded from automatic escaping by the template engine when configured inline...

CVE-2026-48061

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2026-05-20 16:46:22+00:00| published-proof-of-concept| https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/security/advisories/GHSA-3qmc-cj7q-62hv...

litestar-ormar (>=0.0.1 <=0.0.6) potentially affected by CVE-2026-27953 via ormar (=0.20.2)

ormar PYPI version =0.20.2 is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on ormar and may be impacted: - litestar-ormar =0.0.1, =0.0.6 Source cves: CVE-2026-27953 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-F964-WHRQ-44H8...

CVE-2026-25480

Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface ASGI framework. Prior to 2.20.0, FileStore maps cache keys to filenames using Unicode NFKD normalization and ord substitution without separators, creating key collisions. When FileStore is used as response-cache backend, an unauthenticated remo...