CVE-2024-39311 Publify Vulnerable To Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Via Redirects Requiring User Interaction

What is CVE-2024-39311?

CVE-2024-39311 is a low-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in publify, published on 28 Mar 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Publify is a self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails. Prior to version 10.0.1 of Publify, corresponding to versions prior to 10.0.2 of the `publify_core` rubygem, publisher on a `publify` application is able to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack on an administrator using the redirect functionality. The exploitation of this XSS vulnerability requires the administrator to click a malicious link. An attack could attempt to hide their payload by using HTML, or other encodings, as to not make it obvious to an administrator that this is a malicious link. A publisher may attempt to use this vulnerability to escalate their privileges and become an administrator. Version 10.0.1 of Publify and version 10.0.2 of the `publify_core` rubygem fix the issue.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-39311?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including publify_core. It affects 2 products.

Products include Publify Publify, Publify Publify Core.

How do I fix CVE-2024-39311?

Upgrade publify_core to 10.0.2 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-2024-39311 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-39311 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in publify

• CVE-2014-3211 Publify vulnerable to DoS attack High 7.5

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-8fm5-gg2f-f66q.