# CVE-2024-23189: Cross-site scripting in OX App Suite

> Attackers can execute script code in user browser sessions via embedded content, enabling malicious API requests or data extraction.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 8 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 4 Nov 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-g734-xxmw-4f5p

## What is CVE-2024-23189?

CVE-2024-23189 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Open-Xchange GmbH OX App Suite, published on 8 Apr 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Embedded content references at tasks could be used to temporarily execute script code in the context of the users browser session. To exploit this an attacker would require temporary access to the users account, access to another account within the same context or an successful social engineering attack to make users import external content. Attackers could perform malicious API requests or extract information from the users account. Please deploy the provided updates and patch releases. Sanitization of user-generated content has been improved. No publicly available exploits are known.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-23189?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-23189?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-23189 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-23189 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-23189 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-23189 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-23189 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Open-Xchange GmbH OX App Suite, published on 8 Apr 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-23189 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Open-Xchange GmbH OX App Suite. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-23189/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-23189/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-23189
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23189
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-23189

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-23189/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.