CVE-2024-35236Audiobookshelf Cross-Site-Scripting vulnerability via crafted ebooks
- 4.8MediumCVSS base score
- 0.83%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 42% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. Prior to version 2.10.0, opening an ebook with malicious scripts inside leads to code execution inside the browsing context. Attacking a user with high privileges (upload, creation of libraries) can lead to remote code execution (RCE) in the worst case. This was tested on version 2.9.0 on Windows, but an arbitrary file write is powerful enough as is and should easily lead to RCE on Linux, too. Version 2.10.0 contains a patch for the vulnerability.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 13 days later
· 13 days later
Published
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.83% · top 42% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.8.
Affected products
- affected < 2.10.0
References
References5
- https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/security/advisories/GHSA-7j99-76cj-q9pg (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/commit/ce7f891b9b2cb57c6644aaf96f89a8bda6307664 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/assets/36849099/46f6dfe0-9860-4ec0-a987-b3a553f7e45d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/blob/04ed4810fdfcafc2e82db536edc5870e3f937d00/client/components/readers/EpubReader.vue#L319 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/releases/tag/v2.10.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-35253 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-35236)Record last updated .