Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. From 2.1.0 until 3.1.0, Etherpad uses the attacker-controlled x-proxy-path request header in src/node/hooks/express/admin.ts when substituting paths into HTML, JavaScript, and CSS under /admin without sanitization, Vary: x-proxy-path, or Cache-Control: private, no-store. A shared proxy or CDN can cache the resulting response and serve attacker-injected script to an administrator. In src/node/hooks/express/specialpages.ts, version 3.0.0 also accepts a protocol-relative x-proxy-path value when constructing the /p/:pad/timeslider redirect, allowing redirection to an attacker-controlled host. The issues are exploitable when the deployment permits client-supplied x-proxy-path headers to reach Etherpad. This issue is fixed in version 3.1.0.
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-fjgc-3mj7-8rg8 | ep_etherpad-lite: Cache-poisoning Cross-site Scripting and Open Redirect via x-proxy-path Header |
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Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:30:00 +0000
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| Description | Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. From 2.1.0 until 3.1.0, Etherpad uses the attacker-controlled x-proxy-path request header in src/node/hooks/express/admin.ts when substituting paths into HTML, JavaScript, and CSS under /admin without sanitization, Vary: x-proxy-path, or Cache-Control: private, no-store. A shared proxy or CDN can cache the resulting response and serve attacker-injected script to an administrator. In src/node/hooks/express/specialpages.ts, version 3.0.0 also accepts a protocol-relative x-proxy-path value when constructing the /p/:pad/timeslider redirect, allowing redirection to an attacker-controlled host. The issues are exploitable when the deployment permits client-supplied x-proxy-path headers to reach Etherpad. This issue is fixed in version 3.1.0. | |
| Title | Etherpad: x-proxy-path header reflected into admin HTML/JS/CSS (cache-poisoning XSS) and concatenated into redirect (open-redirect) | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-444 CWE-601 CWE-79 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-19T19:29:16.221Z
Reserved: 2026-06-16T14:41:54.578Z
Link: CVE-2026-55087
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-19T20:17:17.720
Modified: 2026-08-19T20:17:17.720
Link: CVE-2026-55087
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