# CVE-2025-66469: NiceGUI Reflected XSS in ui.add\_css, ui.add\_scss, and ui.add\_sass via Style Injection

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-1697, GHSA-72QC-WXCH-74MG
- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.4.0
- Published: 2025-12-08 · Updated: 2025-12-09

## Affected

- zauberzeug nicegui: fixed in 3.4.0
- nicegui (PyPI): fixed in 3.4.0

## Description

NiceGUI is a Python-based UI framework. Versions 3.3.1 and below are vulnerable to Reflected XSS through its ui.add_css, ui.add_scss, and ui.add_sass functions. The functions lack proper sanitization or encoding for the JavaScript context they generate. An attacker can break out of the intended <style> or <script> tags by injecting closing tags (e.g., </style> or </script>), allowing for the execution of arbitrary JavaScript. This issue is fixed in version 3.4.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on zauberzeug nicegui, nicegui, upgrade to a fixed version (3.4.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/zauberzeug/nicegui/security/advisories/GHSA-72qc-wxch-74mg
- https://github.com/zauberzeug/nicegui/commit/a8fd25b7d5e23afb1952d0f60a1940e18b5f1ca8

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