CVE-2022-3607 Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in octoprint/octoprint

What is CVE-2022-3607?

CVE-2022-3607 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in octoprint/octoprint, published on 19 Oct 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in GitHub repository octoprint/octoprint prior to 1.8.3.

Weakness: CWE-74, CWE-75

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-3607?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including octoprint and OctoPrint. It affects 1 product.

Products include Octoprint Octoprint.

How do I fix CVE-2022-3607?

Upgrade octoprint to 1.8.3 or later.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2022-3607 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-3607 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in octoprint/octoprint

• CVE-2018-16710 Information disclosure in n/a Critical 9.1
• CVE-2025-58180 OctoPrint is Vulnerable to RCE Attacks via Unsanitized Filename in File Upload High 7.5
• CVE-2022-1430 Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - DOM in octoprint/octoprint High 7.5
• CVE-2022-1432 Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Generic in octoprint/octoprint High 7.5
• CVE-2024-32977 OctoPrint Authentication Bypass via X-Forwarded-For Header when autologinLocal is enabled High 7.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-rj5f-vm79-5j84, PYSEC-2022-42975.