PYSEC-2026-2757 Open WebUI: Stored XSS to Account Takeover via Model Profile Images

Stored XSS to Account Takeover via Model Profile Images in Open WebUI Affected: Open WebUI tags. On the output side, users.py added a MIME allowlist check and X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff. The fix was applied to UserUpdateForm, UpdateProfileForm, and later to ChannelWebhookForm. Three models...

PYSEC-2026-2761 Open WebUI: Forged model meta.knowledge allows cross-user file read and deletion

Summary Open WebUI lets a user who can create, update, or import workspace models store arbitrary meta.knowledge entries on their model without checking whether they own or can read the referenced files. Open WebUI then treats meta.knowledge entries of type file as an authorization source in two...

PYSEC-2026-2695 Open WebUI: Cross-origin postMessage confirmation bypass via action:submit

Summary The chat message listener allows non-same-origin input:prompt and action:submit messages, so an external site can set prompt text and trigger submitPrompt in an authenticated victim session. I validated this with a cross-origin attacker page that auto-posted messages and caused unauthoriz...

Open WebUI: Cross-origin postMessage confirmation bypass via action:submit

SummaryThe chat message listener allows non-same-origin input:prompt and action:submit messages, so an external site can set prompt text and trigger submitPrompt in an authenticated victim session. I validated this with a cross-origin attacker page that auto-posted messages and caused unauthorize...

Open WebUI: RAG ACL Bypass in Milvus Multitenancy Mode

RAG ACL Bypass in Milvus Multitenancy Mode SummaryThis is a bypass of the fix for:- GHSA-h36f-rqpx-j5wx- CVE-2026-44560- "Unauthorized File and Knowledge Base Content Access via RAG Vector Search"Open WebUI added collection-level ACL checks, but the patch can still be bypassed when Milvus...

Open WebUI: Stored XSS in Mermaid Markdown Preview

SummaryOpen WebUI renders Mermaid blocks from Markdown files in the file preview panel and inserts the generated SVG into the DOM using innerHTML.Because Mermaid is configured with securityLevel: 'loose', attacker-controlled Mermaid content can be rendered unsafely in this flow. A working payload...

Open WebUI: Redirect-Bypass SSRF in OAuth `_process_picture_url` (incomplete-fix sibling of CVE-2026-45401)

Summarybackend/openwebui/utils/oauth.py::processpictureurl v0.9.5, lines 1435-1470 calls validateurlpictureurl on the initial URL only, then invokes aiohttp.ClientSession.getpictureurl, ... without allowredirects=False. aiohttp's default is allowredirects=True, maxredirects=10; the function does...

Open WebUI BOLA: `search_knowledge_files` Allows Unauthorized Knowledge Base File Enumeration

SummaryOpen WebUI has a Broken Object Level Authorization BOLA vulnerability in the builtin searchknowledgefiles tool.When native function calling is enabled and the selected model has no attached knowledge bases, an authenticated user can call searchknowledgefiles with an arbitrary knowledgeid...

Open WebUI: Sibling-Prefix Path Traversal via /cache/{path}

SummaryA path traversal vulnerability exists in open-webui's cache file serving endpoint that allows any authenticated user to read files from sibling directories outside the intended cache directory, by exploiting an incomplete startswith containment check that lacks a trailing path separator.Th...

Open WebUI: Forged model meta.knowledge allows cross-user file read and deletion

SummaryOpen WebUI lets a user who can create, update, or import workspace models store arbitrary meta.knowledge entries on their model without checking whether they own or can read the referenced files. Open WebUI then treats meta.knowledge entries of type file as an authorization source in two...

Open WebUI: Forged chat-file link allows cross-user file read and deletion

SummaryOpen WebUI v0.9.5 lets an authenticated user attach arbitrary fileid values to their own chat message without checking whether they own or can read those files. If the attacker then shares that chat and grants themselves read access, hasaccesstofile treats the victim file as accessible...

PYSEC-2026-2759 Open WebUI: Stored XSS in Mermaid Markdown Preview

Summary Open WebUI renders Mermaid blocks from Markdown files in the file preview panel and inserts the generated SVG into the DOM using innerHTML. Because Mermaid is configured with securityLevel: 'loose', attacker-controlled Mermaid content can be rendered unsafely in this flow. A working paylo...

PYSEC-2026-2751 Open WebUI: Path traversal / SSRF in terminal server proxy via encoded path traversal

Summary The terminal-server reverse proxy in backend/openwebui/routers/terminals.py does not fully confine the user-controlled path segment before forwarding it to an admin-configured terminal server. An authenticated user who has been granted access to a terminal server can craft path values...

PYSEC-2026-2721 Open WebUI BOLA: `search_knowledge_files` Allows Unauthorized Knowledge Base File Enumeration

Summary Open WebUI has a Broken Object Level Authorization BOLA vulnerability in the builtin searchknowledgefiles tool. When native function calling is enabled and the selected model has no attached knowledge bases, an authenticated user can call searchknowledgefiles with an arbitrary knowledgeid...

PYSEC-2026-2698 Open WebUI: Jupyter code execution works despite `ENABLE_CODE_EXECUTION=false` — feature gate bypassed

Summary The /api/v1/utils/code/execute endpoint executes arbitrary Python code via Jupyter for any verified user, even when the admin has set ENABLECODEEXECUTION=false. The feature gate is not enforced on the API endpoint — the configuration says "disabled" but code still executes. Details The...

PYSEC-2026-2706 Open WebUI Vulnerable to Unauthenticated RAG Configuration Disclosure

Vulnerability Type: Information Disclosure / Missing Authentication Severity: Medium Component: backend/openwebui/routers/retrieval.py — getstatus GET / Affected Endpoint: GET /api/v1/retrieval/ Affected Version: Open WebUI main branch — confirmed unpatched through v0.9.2 Authentication Required:...

PYSEC-2026-2714 Open WebUI: Low-privilege authenticated users can enumerate and stop global background tasks, causing system-wide chat disruption

Summary Any authenticated user with low privileges can enumerate active background tasks across the system and stop tasks belonging to other users via the GET /api/tasks and POST /api/tasks/stop/taskid methods. This allows a casual user to disrupt system-wide chat usage by continuously canceling...

PYSEC-2026-2755 Open WebUI has a SSRF Bypass via HTTP Redirect Following in Web-Fetch and Image-Load Endpoints (not addressed by CVE-2025-65958)

Server-Side Request Forgery SSRF Bypass via HTTP Redirect Following in Web-Fetch, Image-Load, and Chat-Completion Endpoints Summary The validateurl function in backend/openwebui/retrieval/web/utils.py only validates the initial URL submitted by the caller. The HTTP clients used downstream sync...

PYSEC-2026-2715 Open WebUI has a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) bypass in `validate_url`

Summary In the open-webui project, a parsing difference between the urlparse and requests libraries led to an SSRF bypass vulnerability. Details In the current project, URL validation is performed using the function validateurl. The current checking logic uses urlparse to parse the hostname part ...

PYSEC-2026-2741 Open WebUI Exposes System Prompt to Regular User [Non-Admin]

Summary A regular user non-admin can view the system prompt of the model which is set by an admin. Details When a regular user non-admin logs into the application, a http://IP:8080/api/models? web request is initiated by the application and in response, it reveals the system prompt of available...