Calibre Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

published 2024-08-06 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-48029

cvss: 5.4; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 25.6%; EPSS 25.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits: 0; none known, plus a Nuclei check

Unsanitized user-input in Calibre <= 7.15.0 allow attackers to perform reflected cross-site scripting.

Patch / fix

distros 1 links 1

calibre Debian 12 6.13.0+repack-2+deb12u4
calibre Debian 14, Debian 13 7.16.0+ds-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-7008

github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre@863abac commit

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-7008 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 5.4

calibre: Unsanitized user-input in Calibre allow attackers to perform reflected cross-site scripting

Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: Proof of concept is public
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-08-08)

Exploit prediction

25.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

Nuclei template Calibre <= 7.15.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) nuclei detection template
starlabs.sg https://starlabs.sg/advisories/24/24-7008/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD	3.1	6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

Calibre Calibre

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

github.com /kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/863abac24e7bc3e5ca0b3307362ff1953ba53fe0
patch
starlabs.sg /advisories/24/24-7008/
third-party-advisory, exploit

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-7008
NVD CVE-2024-7008

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Summary