CVE-2021-46888

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2021-46888 · Published 21/05/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-46888 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting hledger (hledger).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.77%, higher than 55.7% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.23 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
hledger hledger	`< 1.23`	`1.23`

Description

An issue was discovered in hledger before 1.23. A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in toBloodhoundJson that allows an attacker to execute JavaScript by encoding user-controlled values in a payload with base64 and parsing them with the atob function.

References

simonmichael/hledger · Exploit
simonmichael/hledger#1663 · Exploit
simonmichael/hledger release 1.23 · Release Notes
youtube.com/watch · Exploit

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