CVE-2026-44549: Open WebUI has stored XSS in Excel file preview

May 8, 2026

Excel file attachments are previewed in an unsafe way. A crafted XLSX file payload can be used to cause the sheetjs function sheet_to_html to embed an XSS payload into the generated HTML. This is subsequently added to the DOM unsanitized via @html causing the payload to trigger.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-jwf8-pv5p-vhmc
github.com/open-webui/open-webui
github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-jwf8-pv5p-vhmc
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44549

Code Behaviors & Features

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