---
id: CVE-2014-3840
aliases:
  - GHSA-wpvx-26f7-65q3
title: Mayan EDMS multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
summary: Mayan EDMS multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
severity: medium
vendor: mayan-edms
product: mayan-edms
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - mayan-edms
published: '2022-05-17'
updated: '2026-09-10'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-10T03:49:43.332931424Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-wpvx-26f7-65q3'
references:
  - url: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3840'
  - url: 'https://github.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms/issues/3'
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms/commit/398c480c10416d76e7c1dcb607e726e8fc988e72
  - url: 'https://github.com/mayan-edms/Mayan-EDMS'
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mayan-edms/PYSEC-2014-110.yaml
  - url: >-
      http://research.openflare.org/advisories/OF-2014-09/mayan-edbs-storedxss.txt
  - url: 'http://research.openflare.org/poc/maya-edms/maya-edms_multiple_xss.avi'
  - url: 'http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/349'
  - url: 'http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/352'
  - url: 'http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33493'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
  - exploit-available
epss: 0.03505
epssPercentile: 0.88671
exploits:
  exploitdb: true
  checkedAt: '2026-09-21T15:24:37.828Z'
exploitAvailable: true
ingestedAt: '2026-09-12T03:13:01.737Z'
---

## Overview

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in apps/common/templates/calculate_form_title.html in Mayan EDMS 0.13 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) tag or the (2) title of a source in a Staging folder, (3) Name field in a bootstrap setup, or Title field in a (4) smart link or (5) web form.

## Affected packages

- `mayan-edms`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.
