CVE-2026-30862 (GCVE-0-2026-30862)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-09 22:26 – Updated: 2026-03-10 14:19
VLAI?
Title
Critical Stored XSS & Privilege Escalation in Appsmith
Summary
Appsmith is a platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Prior to 1.96, a Critical Stored XSS vulnerability exists in the Table Widget (TableWidgetV2). The root cause is a lack of HTML sanitization in the React component rendering pipeline, allowing malicious attributes to be interpolated into the DOM. By leveraging the "Invite Users" feature, an attacker with a regular user account (user@gmail.com) can force a System Administrator to execute a high-privileged API call (/api/v1/admin/env), resulting in a Full Administrative Account Takeover. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.96.
Severity ?
9.1 (Critical)
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
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| appsmithorg | appsmith |
Affected:
< 1.96
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Nomenclature
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