# CVE-2026-45318: Open WebUI: Stored XSS via unsanitized Office/Excel/DOCX file preview rendering ({@html} without DOMPurify)

- Also known as: GHSA-HCWP-82G6-8WXC, PYSEC-2026-2731
- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 0.9.3
- Published: 2026-05-15 · Updated: 2026-05-18

## Affected

- open-webui: fixed in 0.9.3
- open-webui (PyPI): fixed in 0.9.3

## Description

Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.3, his advisory tracks a regression of the original Excel-preview XSS (CVE-2026-44549). The same root cause — XLSX.utils.sheet_to_html() output rendered via {@html excelHtml} without DOMPurify — was reintroduced sometime after v0.8.0 and is exploitable again This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on open-webui, upgrade to a fixed version (0.9.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-hcwp-82g6-8wxc

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