Improper Neutralization of Data within XPath Expressions ('XPath Injection') Affecting smolagents package, versions [,1.22.0)
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- published13 Oct 2025
- disclosed2 Oct 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 2 Oct 2025
NewCVE-2025-11844 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade smolagents to version 1.22.0 or higher.
Overview
smolagents is a 🤗 smolagents: a barebones library for agents. Agents write python code to call tools or orchestrate other agents.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Neutralization of Data within XPath Expressions ('XPath Injection') via the search_item_ctrl_f() function due to the lack of user-supplied text escaping. An attacker could find out how the XML data is structured, or access data that they may not have access to.