API-token theft via crawl-result innerHTML reparse
Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 15, 2026
DOM-based XSS in the Docker Playground UI in Crawl4AI before 0.9.3 allows remote attackers to steal an operator API token. The forceHighlightElement() helper copies serialized crawl results from textContent into innerHTML, re-parsing attacker markup as executable HTML. An authenticated operator must crawl an attacker-influenced URL in the Playground; JavaScript then reads the token from sessionStorage and can abuse the server API.
Summary
What happened
DOM-based XSS in the Docker Playground UI in Crawl4AI before 0.9.3 allows remote attackers to steal an operator API token. The forceHighlightElement() helper copies serialized crawl results from textContent into innerHTML, re-parsing attacker markup as executable HTML. An authenticated operator must crawl an attacker-influenced URL in the Playground; JavaScript then reads the token from sessionStorage and can abuse the server API.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-91942
- Published
- Sep 15, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 15, 2026
- Vendor
- Crawl4AI
- Product
- Crawl4AI
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1203, T1528
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 15, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 15, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <0.9.3
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- Upstream Docker Playground XSS reproductionproof of concept · demonstrated
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