CVE-2024-4286 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in mintplex-labs/anything-llm

Mintplex-Labs’ anything-llm application is vulnerable to improper neutralization of special elements used in an expression language statement, identified in the commit id 57984fa85c31988b2eff429adfc654c46e0c342a. The vulnerability arises from the application’s handling of user modifications by managers or admins, allowing for the modification of all existing attributes of the user database entity without proper checks or sanitization. This flaw can be exploited to delete user threads, denying users access to their previously submitted data, or to inject fake threads and/or chat history for social engineering attacks.