Medium
Security advisory
Flower 0.9.3 has XSS via the name parameter in an @app.task call. NOTE: The project author stated that he doesn't think this is a valid vulnerability. Worker name and task name aren’t user facing configuration options. They are internal backend config options and person having rights to change them already has full access
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-16925
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Flower 0.9.3 has XSS via the name parameter in an @app.task call. NOTE: The project author stated that he doesn't think this is a valid vulnerability. Worker name and task name aren’t user facing configuration options. They are internal backend config options and person having rights to change them already has full access
osv:CVE-2019-16925
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:57.301388986Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2019-09-28T00:15:10.403+00:00"
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