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Prompt Injection triggered XSS vulnerability in Khoj Obsidian, Desktop and Web clients

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Khoj is an application that creates personal AI agents. The Khoj Obsidian, Desktop and Web clients inadequately sanitize the AI model's response and user inputs. This can trigger Cross Site Scripting (XSS) via Prompt Injection from untrusted documents either indexed by the user on Khoj or read by Khoj from the internet when the user invokes the /online command. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.13.0.

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CVEs
CVE-2024-25639
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8 Nov 2026, 00:55 UTC · Revision 1

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Prompt Injection triggered XSS vulnerability in Khoj Obsidian, Desktop and Web clients

core-osv · Original source

Published 8 Jul 2024, 14:24 UTC

Khoj is an application that creates personal AI agents. The Khoj Obsidian, Desktop and Web clients inadequately sanitize the AI model's response and user inputs. This can trigger Cross Site Scripting (XSS) via Prompt Injection from untrusted documents either indexed by the user on Khoj or read by Khoj from the internet when the user invokes the /online command. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.13.0.

osv:CVE-2024-25639
Complete source record
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