# CVE-2024-27092: Content spoofing - real Hoppscotch emails

> Attackers can spoof Hoppscotch emails with malicious content due to insufficient input validation, potentially misleading users.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 26 Feb 2024
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8r6h-8r68-q3pp

## What is CVE-2024-27092?

CVE-2024-27092 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in hoppscotch, published on 26 Feb 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Hoppscotch is an API development ecosystem.  Due to lack of validation for fields like Label (Edit Team) - TeamName, bad actors can send emails with Spoofed Content as Hoppscotch. Part of payload (external link) is presented in clickable form - easier to achieve own goals by malicious actors.  This issue is fixed in 2023.12.6.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-27092?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Hoppscotch Hoppscotch.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-27092?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-27092 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-27092 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-27092 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in hoppscotch

- [CVE-2026-50160](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-50160/): Mass Assignment via Onboarding Endpoint Allows Unauthenticated JWT_SECRET Overwrite (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2026-28215](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-28215/): hoppscotch Vulnerable to Unauthenticated Onboarding Config Takeover (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2026-34931](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-34931/): hoppscotch: Improper loopback redirect_uri validation in device-login flow (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2026-34932](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-34932/): hoppscotch: Stored XSS via mock server responses on backend origin (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2026-28216](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-28216/): hoppscotch has IDOR in updateUserEnvironment / deleteUserEnvironment (high 8.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-27092 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-27092 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in hoppscotch, published on 26 Feb 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-27092 exists.

Affected product: hoppscotch. 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-2024-27092/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-27092/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-27092
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-27092
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-27092

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-27092/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.