# CVE-2026-25640: Pydantic AI affected by Stored XSS via Path Traversal in Web UI CDN URL

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-2979, GHSA-WJP5-868J-WQV7, PYSEC-2026-2983
- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.51.0
- Published: 2026-02-06 · Updated: 2026-07-15

## Affected

- pydantic pydantic-ai: from 1.34.0, fixed in 1.51.0
- pydantic-ai (PyPI): from 1.34.0, fixed in 1.51.0
- pydantic-ai-slim (PyPI): from 1.34.0, fixed in 1.51.0

## Description

Pydantic AI is a Python agent framework for building applications and workflows with Generative AI. From 1.34.0 to before 1.51.0, a path traversal vulnerability in the Pydantic AI web UI allows an attacker to serve arbitrary JavaScript in the context of the application by crafting a malicious URL. In affected versions, the CDN URL is constructed using a version query parameter from the request URL. This parameter is not validated, allowing path traversal sequences that cause the server to fetch and serve attacker-controlled HTML/JavaScript from an arbitrary source on the same CDN, instead of the legitimate chat UI package. If a victim clicks the link or visits it via an iframe, attacker-controlled code executes in their browser, enabling theft of chat history and other client-side data. This vulnerability only affects applications that use Agent.to_web to serve a chat interface and clai web to serve a chat interface from the CLI. These are typically run locally (on localhost), but may also be deployed on a remote server. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.51.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on pydantic pydantic-ai, pydantic-ai, pydantic-ai-slim, upgrade to a fixed version (1.51.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/security/advisories/GHSA-wjp5-868j-wqv7
- https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v1.51.0

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