PYSEC-2026-2704 Open WebUI has stored XSS via the HTML renedering view

Summary Through the HTML rendering view, scripts can be injected and executed. The finding resulted from a penetration test for a customer. It is suspected that the root cause of the issue lies within the core of Open WebUI, which is why it is being reported as a security issue here. Tested on Op...

PYSEC-2026-2708 Open WebUI has Stored Cross-Site Scripting In Profile Picture

Summary The profileimageurl field on the user profile update form accepted arbitrary data: URI values without MIME-type validation. Two distinct attack paths were independently demonstrated by separate reporters: 1. data:text/html;base64,... in a new browser tab raresvis, 2025-04-17 — when a vict...

PYSEC-2026-2737 Open WebUI Arbitrary File Write, Delete via Path Traversal

CONFIDENTIAL Vulnerability Disclosure Analysis Documentation ----------------------------------------------- Vulnerability Details --------------------- 1. Discoverer: Taylor Pennington of KoreLogic, Inc. 2. Date Submitted: June 11, 2024 3. Title: Open WebUI Arbitrary File Write, Delete via Path...

PYSEC-2026-2746 Open WebUI's Insecure Message Access Breaks Authorization

Description There's an IDOR in the channels message management system that allows authenticated users to modify or delete any message within channels they have read access to. The vulnerability exists in the message update and delete endpoints, which implement channel-level authorization but...

PYSEC-2026-2707 Open WebUI vulnerable to Global Knowledge Base Enumeration via knowledge-bases Meta-Collection

Global Knowledge Base Enumeration via knowledge-bases Meta-Collection Affected Component Retrieval collection access validation: - backend/openwebui/routers/retrieval.py lines 2330-2355, validatecollectionaccess - backend/openwebui/routers/retrieval.py query endpoints, e.g. POST /query/doc Affect...

PYSEC-2026-2754 Open WebUI's Ollama Model Access Control Bypass via /api/generate, /api/embed, /api/embeddings, and /api/show

Ollama Model Access Control Bypass via /api/generate, /api/embed, /api/embeddings, and /api/show Affected Component Ollama proxy endpoints missing model access control: - backend/openwebui/routers/ollama.py lines 955-995, generatecompletion - backend/openwebui/routers/ollama.py lines 835-881, emb...

PYSEC-2026-2717 Open WebUI Vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload and Path Traversal

CONFIDENTIAL KL-CAN-2024-002 Vulnerability Details | | Field | Value | |---|-------|-------| | 1 | Discoverer | Jaggar Henry & Sean Segreti of KoreLogic, Inc. | | 2 | Date Submitted | 2024.03.12 | | 3 | Title | Open WebUI Arbitrary File Upload + Path Traversal | | 5 | Affected Vendor | Open WebUI...

PYSEC-2026-2703 Open WebUI has Improper Authorization Control

CONFIDENTIAL Vulnerability Disclosure Analysis Documentation --- Vulnerability Details | | Field | Value | |---|-------|-------| | 1 | Discoverer | Taylor Pennington of KoreLogic, Inc. | | 2 | Date Submitted | June 11, 2024 | | 3 | Title | Open WebUI Improper Authorization Control | | 5 | Affecte...

PYSEC-2026-2729 Open WebUI has Unauthorized File and Knowledge Base Content Access via RAG Vector Search

Unauthorized File and Knowledge Base Content Access via RAG Vector Search Affected Component RAG source resolution in chat completion pipeline: - backend/openwebui/retrieval/utils.py lines 963-965, 1063-1068, 1126-1131 in getsourcesfromitems Affected Versions Current main branch commit 6fdd19bf1...

PYSEC-2026-2734 Open WebUI's responses passthrough endpoint lacks access control authorization

Summary The /responses endpoint in the OpenAI router accepts any authenticated user and forwards requests directly to upstream LLM providers without enforcing per-model access control. While the primary chat completion endpoint generatechatcompletion checks model ownership, group membership, and...

PYSEC-2026-2719 Open WebUI's Base Model Routing Bypasses Access Control via Model Chaining

Base Model Routing Bypasses Access Control via Model Chaining Affected Component Model chaining via basemodelid: - backend/openwebui/routers/models.py lines 170-214, createnewmodel - backend/openwebui/routers/models.py lines 254-308, importmodels - backend/openwebui/main.py lines 1696-1711, base...

PYSEC-2026-2997 pyload-ng has a WebUI JSON permission mismatch that lets ADD/DELETE users invoke MODIFY-only actions

Summary Several WebUI JSON endpoints enforce weaker permissions than the core API methods they invoke. This allows authenticated low-privileged users to execute MODIFY operations that should be denied by pyLoad's own permission model. Confirmed mismatches: - ADD user can reorder packages/files...

PYSEC-2026-2709 Open WebUI has Broken Access Control in Tool Valves

Summary Broken Access Control in Tool Valves Open WebUI supports function calling through "Tools". Function calling allows an LLM to reliably connect to external tools and interact with external APIs. Exemplary use-cases include connecting to an internal knowledge base, retrieving emails from an...

PYSEC-2026-2764 Open WebUI vulnerable to Path Traversal in `POST /api/v1/audio/transcriptions`

Summary An unsanitised filename field in the speech-to-text transcription endpoint allows any authenticated non-admin user to trigger a FileNotFoundError whose message — including the server's absolute DATADIR path — is returned verbatim in the HTTP 400 response body, confirming information...

PYSEC-2026-3057 Rucio WebUI has Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in RSE Metadata

Summary A stored Cross-site Scripting XSS vulnerability was identified in the RSE metadata of the WebUI where attacker-controlled input is persisted by the backend and later rendered in the WebUI without proper output encoding. This allows arbitrary JavaScript execution in the context of the WebU...

PYSEC-2026-3055 Rucio WebUI has a Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in its Custom RSE Attribute

Summary A stored Cross-site Scripting XSS vulnerability was identified in the Custom RSE Attribute of the WebUI where attacker-controlled input is persisted by the backend and later rendered in the WebUI without proper output encoding. This allows arbitrary JavaScript execution in the context of...

PYSEC-2026-3056 Rucio WebUI has a Reflected Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability

Summary A reflected Cross-site Scripting vulnerability was located in the rendering of the ExceptionMessage of the WebUI 500 error which could allow attackers to steal login session tokens of users who navigate to a specially crafted URL. Details The WebUI error message renders ExceptionMessage...

PYSEC-2026-3058 Rucio WebUI Vulnerable to Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) through Custom Rule Function

Summary A stored Cross-site Scripting XSS vulnerability was identified in the Custom Rules function of the WebUI where attacker-controlled input is persisted by the backend and later rendered in the WebUI without proper output encoding. This allows arbitrary JavaScript execution in the context of...

The vulnerability of the Open WebUI web interface, related to the lack of permission checking, allows a violator to gain read access, modify data, and increase their privileges.

The vulnerability of the Open WebUI web interface relates to the lack of permission checking for workspace.models.import. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker, operating remotely, to gain read access, modify data, and enhance their privileges by sending a specially crafted POST...

EUVD-2026-42726

Hermes WebUI before 0.51.307 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to circumvent local-origin IP restrictions on onboarding endpoints by supplying a spoofed X-Forwarded-For header with a loopback address. Attackers can exploit this bypass to...