🛡️ CVE-2026-7299 — appsmith

🟡 CVSS 6.3 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-79 NVD
6.3
CVSS Score
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Description

Appsmith’s SQL query editor’s autocomplete functionality fails to sanitize database object names before rendering them in innerHTML, allowing an authenticated Developer to inject persistent XSS by a malicious table or column names triggering arbitrary code execution in the sessions of other workspace members when they interact with the same datasource.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-7299 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2026-7299 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • appsmith (fixed in 1.99)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 2 June 2026 and last revised on 22 July 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2026-06-02
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-22

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
appsmith — 1.99
unknown — —

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