Etherpad 2.1.0 <= 3.0.0 - Cross-Site Scripting

Etherpad versions 2.1.0 through 3.0.0 reflect the x-proxy-path request header into admin HTML, JavaScript, and CSS responses without sanitization. An attacker can abuse this behavior to inject crafted content into generated resource URLs, enabling cross-site scripting and cache poisoning scenario...

Etherpad Lite <1.6.4 - Admin Authentication Bypass

Etherpad Lite before 1.6.4 is exploitable for admin access. id: CVE-2018-9845 info: name: Etherpad Lite 1.6.4 - Admin Authentication Bypass author: philippedelteil severity: critical description: Etherpad Lite before 1.6.4 is exploitable for admin access. impact: | An attacker can bypass the admi...

Wikimedia Says OpenAI Agents Tried to Compromise Etherpad and Use Wiki Tools as Proxies

The Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, has confirmed that it has discovered activity by rogue OpenAI agents on its platforms, including unsuccessful efforts to compromise Etherpad, a public note-taking tool, and edit Wikipedia pages. "The unauthorized bot activities included edits to ou...

CVE-2026-55089

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. From 2.1.0 until 3.1.0, Etherpad's src/node/handler/APIHandler.ts authorizes requests to /api/2/ in the authorizationcode OAuth path by using requiredClaims with the admin claim. This check requires only that the claim exists, while...

CVE-2026-55090

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. Prior to 3.3.0, getHTMLFromAtext in src/node/utils/ExportHtml.ts interpolates values from the exportHtmlAdditionalTagsWithData plugin hook into span data attributes without HTML attribute escaping. A pad editor can place an attacker-controlled value...

CVE-2026-55085

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. Prior to 3.3.1, result.appendSpan in src/static/js/domline.ts interpolates the start attribute of a numbered list directly into an unquoted ol start attribute before assigning the generated markup to node.innerHTML. ImportEtherpad.setPadRaw in...

CVE-2026-55088

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. From 2.6.0 until 3.1.0, Etherpad's src/node/hooks/express/tokenTransfer.ts uses POST /tokenTransfer to store an author token for transfer between browsers and exposes it through GET /tokenTransfer/uuid. Although the record includes createdAt, the...

CVE-2026-55086

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. Prior to 3.1.0, src/node/handler/ImportHandler.ts and src/node/handler/ExportHandler.ts derive temporary filenames from Math.random and place them in os.tmpdir. On a host with a shared world-writable temporary directory, a local unprivileged attacker...

CVE-2026-55087

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. From 2.1.0 until 3.1.0, Etherpad uses the attacker-controlled x-proxy-path request header in src/node/hooks/express/admin.ts when substituting paths into HTML, JavaScript, and CSS under /admin without sanitization, Vary: x-proxy-path, or Cache-Control...

EUVD-2026-62741

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. Prior to 3.1.0, src/node/handler/ImportHandler.ts and src/node/handler/ExportHandler.ts derive temporary filenames from Math.random and place them in os.tmpdir. On a host with a shared world-writable temporary directory, a local unprivileged attacker...

CVE-2026-55086 Etherpad: Import/export use Math.random() for temp file paths; predictable paths on shared /tmp enable symlink-based file overwrite

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. Prior to 3.1.0, src/node/handler/ImportHandler.ts and src/node/handler/ExportHandler.ts derive temporary filenames from Math.random and place them in os.tmpdir. On a host with a shared world-writable temporary directory, a local unprivileged attacker...

CVE-2026-55086 Etherpad: Import/export use Math.random() for temp file paths; predictable paths on shared /tmp enable symlink-based file overwrite

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. Prior to 3.1.0, src/node/handler/ImportHandler.ts and src/node/handler/ExportHandler.ts derive temporary filenames from Math.random and place them in os.tmpdir. On a host with a shared world-writable temporary directory, a local unprivileged attacker...

CVE-2026-55086 Etherpad: Import/export use Math.random() for temp file paths; predictable paths on shared /tmp enable symlink-based file overwrite

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. Prior to 3.1.0, src/node/handler/ImportHandler.ts and src/node/handler/ExportHandler.ts derive temporary filenames from Math.random and place them in os.tmpdir. On a host with a shared world-writable temporary directory, a local unprivileged attacker...

CVE-2026-55086

Etherpad (ep_etherpad-lite) versions prior to 3.1.0 are vulnerable to a symlink-based file overwrite via predictable temporary filenames. The ImportHandler.ts and ExportHandler.ts components derive temp-file paths from Math.random() (~32 bits of entropy), which is predictable within the same Node...

CVE-2026-55085

Etherpad (real-time collaborative editor) is affected by a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability prior to version 3.3.1 . The root cause is in result.appendSpan in src/static/js/domline.ts, which interpolates the start attribute of a numbered list directly into an unquoted ol start attribute ...

CVE-2026-55085 Etherpad: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in etherpad-lite

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. Prior to 3.3.1, result.appendSpan in src/static/js/domline.ts interpolates the start attribute of a numbered list directly into an unquoted ol start attribute before assigning the generated markup to node.innerHTML. ImportEtherpad.setPadRaw in...

CVE-2026-55085 Etherpad: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in etherpad-lite

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. Prior to 3.3.1, result.appendSpan in src/static/js/domline.ts interpolates the start attribute of a numbered list directly into an unquoted ol start attribute before assigning the generated markup to node.innerHTML. ImportEtherpad.setPadRaw in...

EUVD-2026-62740

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. Prior to 3.3.1, result.appendSpan in src/static/js/domline.ts interpolates the start attribute of a numbered list directly into an unquoted ol start attribute before assigning the generated markup to node.innerHTML. ImportEtherpad.setPadRaw in...

CVE-2026-55085 Etherpad: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in etherpad-lite

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. Prior to 3.3.1, result.appendSpan in src/static/js/domline.ts interpolates the start attribute of a numbered list directly into an unquoted ol start attribute before assigning the generated markup to node.innerHTML. ImportEtherpad.setPadRaw in...

CVE-2026-55089

Etherpad (real-time collaborative editor) versions 2.1.0 through 3.1.0 contain a critical authorization bypass in the OAuth authorization_code path. The APIHandler.ts file checks only for the presence of the admin JWT claim rather than its boolean value, while OAuth2Provider.ts issues admin: fals...