Medium severity4.5NVD Advisory· Published May 11, 2026· Updated May 12, 2026

CVE-2026-42887

Description

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. Prior to 2.33.0, a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the Login Page due to improper sanitization of the authLoginCustomMessage field of the /api/auth-settings endpoint. An attacker with administrative privileges can inject arbitrary HTML/JavaScript that will be rendered on the login page for all users. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.33.0.

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Affected products

Advplyr/Audiobookshelfllm-fuzzy
Range: <2.33.0

Patches

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References

github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/security/advisories/GHSA-cx29-ghq2-9cm4nvd

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