CVE-2021-37794: Filebrowser Project Filebrowser

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in FileBrowser < v2.16.0 that allows an authenticated user authorized to upload a malicious .svg file which acts as a stored XSS payload. If this stored XSS payload is triggered by an administrator it will trigger malicious OS commands on the server running the FileBrowser instance.

Affected products

• Filebrowser Project Filebrowser: before 2.16.0 (fixed in 2.16.0)

Published 2021-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.