diff --git a/invokeai/app/services/image_files/image_files_disk.py b/invokeai/app/services/image_files/image_files_disk.py
index 135df836103..e5bfd72781d 100644
--- a/invokeai/app/services/image_files/image_files_disk.py
+++ b/invokeai/app/services/image_files/image_files_disk.py
@@ -110,15 +110,26 @@ def delete(self, image_name: str) -> None:
         except Exception as e:
             raise ImageFileDeleteException from e
 
-    # TODO: make this a bit more flexible for e.g. cloud storage
     def get_path(self, image_name: str, thumbnail: bool = False) -> Path:
-        path = self.__output_folder / image_name
+        base_folder = self.__thumbnails_folder if thumbnail else self.__output_folder
+        filename = get_thumbnail_name(image_name) if thumbnail else image_name
 
-        if thumbnail:
-            thumbnail_name = get_thumbnail_name(image_name)
-            path = self.__thumbnails_folder / thumbnail_name
+        # Strip any path information from the filename
+        basename = Path(filename).name
+
+        if basename != filename:
+            raise ValueError("Invalid image name, potential directory traversal detected")
+
+        image_path = base_folder / basename
+
+        # Ensure the image path is within the base folder to prevent directory traversal
+        resolved_base = base_folder.resolve()
+        resolved_image_path = image_path.resolve()
+
+        if not resolved_image_path.is_relative_to(resolved_base):
+            raise ValueError("Image path outside outputs folder, potential directory traversal detected")
 
-        return path
+        return resolved_image_path
 
     def validate_path(self, path: Union[str, Path]) -> bool:
         """Validates the path given for an image or thumbnail."""
diff --git a/tests/app/services/image_files/test_image_files_disk.py b/tests/app/services/image_files/test_image_files_disk.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4304b008c87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/app/services/image_files/test_image_files_disk.py
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+import platform
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+from invokeai.app.services.image_files.image_files_disk import DiskImageFileStorage
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def image_names() -> list[str]:
+    # Determine the platform and return a path that matches its format
+    if platform.system() == "Windows":
+        return [
+            # Relative paths
+            "folder\\evil.txt",
+            "folder\\..\\evil.txt",
+            # Absolute paths
+            "\\folder\\evil.txt",
+            "C:\\folder\\..\\evil.txt",
+        ]
+    else:
+        return [
+            # Relative paths
+            "folder/evil.txt",
+            "folder/../evil.txt",
+            # Absolute paths
+            "/folder/evil.txt",
+            "/folder/../evil.txt",
+        ]
+
+
+def test_directory_traversal_protection(tmp_path: Path, image_names: list[str]):
+    """Test that the image file storage prevents directory traversal attacks.
+
+    There are two safeguards in the `DiskImageFileStorage.get_path` method:
+    1. Check if the image name contains any directory traversal characters
+    2. Check if the resulting path is relative to the base folder
+
+    This test checks the first safeguard. I'd like to check the second but I cannot figure out a test case that would
+    pass the first check but fail the second check.
+    """
+    image_files_disk = DiskImageFileStorage(tmp_path)
+    for name in image_names:
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="Invalid image name, potential directory traversal detected"):
+            image_files_disk.get_path(name)
+
+
+def test_image_paths_relative_to_storage_dir(tmp_path: Path):
+    image_files_disk = DiskImageFileStorage(tmp_path)
+    path = image_files_disk.get_path("foo.png")
+    assert path.is_relative_to(tmp_path)