Summary
SillyTavern has a reflected XSS vulnerability in the CORS proxy middleware
Impact
An attacker may run arbitrary JavaScript in the victim context, steal tokens, and manipulate user-visible behavior.
Untrusted input is rendered as active markup in a victim's browser, which can run script in their session. Typical impact: session or credential theft, and actions taken as the user.
Affected versions
Security releases
Kodem intelligence
Severity tells you how bad this could be in the worst case. It does not tell you whether you are exposed. Exploitability and impact are functions of runtime truth: whether the vulnerable code is present, reachable, and actually executes in your application. A vulnerable package can sit in your dependency tree and never run.
Kodem, an Intelligent Application Security platform, uses runtime intelligence to reveal which vulnerabilities actually execute in production, so teams prioritize the ones that genuinely matter. Kodem's runtime-powered SCA identifies whether this CVE is reachable in your applications.
Remediation advice
- Never concatenate raw user input into HTML error responses.
- If URL echo is required, HTML-escape it or force plain-text output.
- Re-enable/strengthen CSP to reduce reflected injection impact.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is CVE-2026-44651? CVE-2026-44651 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in sillytavern (npm), affecting versions <= 1.17.0. It is fixed in 1.18.0. Untrusted input is rendered as active markup in a victim's browser, which can run script in their session.
- Which versions of sillytavern are affected by CVE-2026-44651? sillytavern (npm) versions <= 1.17.0 is affected.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-44651? Yes. CVE-2026-44651 is fixed in 1.18.0. Upgrade to this version or later.
- Is CVE-2026-44651 exploitable, and should I be worried? Whether CVE-2026-44651 is exploitable in your environment depends on whether the vulnerable code is present and reachable. A CVSS score is a worst-case rating; it does not account for your specific deployment, configuration, or usage patterns. Kodem, an Intelligent Application Security platform, uses runtime intelligence to show which vulnerabilities actually execute in production, so you can focus on the ones that represent real risk. Get a demo
- What actually determines whether CVE-2026-44651 is exploitable, and how bad it is? Exploitability and impact are not fixed properties of a CVE. They depend on runtime truth: whether the vulnerable code is present, reachable, and actually executes in your application. A high CVSS score on a dependency that never runs is not the same as real risk. Kodem, an Intelligent Application Security platform, uses runtime intelligence to reveal which vulnerabilities actually execute in production, so teams prioritize the ones that genuinely matter.
- How do I fix CVE-2026-44651? Upgrade
sillytavernto 1.18.0 or later.