Khoj Vulnerable to Stored Cross-site Scripting In Automate (Preview feature)

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    "title": "Khoj Vulnerable to Stored Cross-site Scripting In Automate (Preview feature)",
    "summary": "Khoj is an application that creates personal AI agents. The Automation feature allows a user to insert arbitrary HTML inside the task instructions, resulting in a Stored XSS. The q parameter for the /api/automation endpoint does not get correctly sanitized when rendered on the page, resulting in the ability of users to inject arbitrary HTML/JS. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.0.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:41.818074761Z",
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  "published_at": "2024-08-20T20:23:05.66+00:00"
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