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CVE-2021-32670

6.1 mediumEPSS 1.0%

Medium (6.1) in datasette datasette. EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in datasette 0.56.1.

Datasette is an open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data. The `?_trace=1` debugging feature in Datasette does not correctly escape generated HTML, resulting in a [reflected cross-site scripting](https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss/#reflected-xss-attacks) vulnerability. This vulnerability is particularly relevant if your Datasette installation includes authenticated features using plugins such as [datasette-auth-passwords](https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-auth-passwords) as an attacker could use the vulnerability to access protected data. Datasette 0.57 and 0.56.1 both include patches for this issue. If you run Datasette behind a proxy you can workaround this issue by rejecting any incoming requests with `?_trace=` or `&_trace=` in their query string parameters.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.1 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 61% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
CWE
CWE-79
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-xw7c-jx9m-xh5gPyPIdatasette<0.56.10.56.1
PYSEC-2021-89PyPIdatasette<0.56.10.56.1

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