diff --git a/server/routes/internal-meetings.js b/server/routes/internal-meetings.js
index 8f84471..9c3493b 100644
--- a/server/routes/internal-meetings.js
+++ b/server/routes/internal-meetings.js
@@ -77,19 +77,31 @@ async function ensureMeetingsDir(dataDir) {
   await fs.mkdir(meetingsDir(dataDir), { recursive: true }).catch(() => {});
 }
 
+// Build the on-disk path for a meeting record, sanitizing the id so a
+// caller-supplied :id can't traverse out of internal-meetings/. Real
+// ids are UUIDs; anything outside [A-Za-z0-9_-] is stripped (mirrors
+// output-store.js's pathFor). Throws when the id sanitizes to empty —
+// load/delete catch it (→ 404 / no-op); save only ever gets a freshly
+// minted id.
+export function meetingPath(dataDir, id) {
+  const safe = String(id || "").replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9_-]/g, "");
+  if (!safe) throw new Error("invalid meeting id");
+  return path.join(meetingsDir(dataDir), `${safe}.json`);
+}
+
 // ─── Storage layer ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
 async function saveMeeting(dataDir, id, record) {
   await ensureMeetingsDir(dataDir);
-  const filePath = path.join(meetingsDir(dataDir), `${id}.json`);
+  const filePath = meetingPath(dataDir, id);
   await fs.writeFile(filePath, JSON.stringify(record, null, 2), {
     mode: 0o600,
   });
 }
 
 async function loadMeeting(dataDir, id) {
-  const filePath = path.join(meetingsDir(dataDir), `${id}.json`);
   try {
+    const filePath = meetingPath(dataDir, id);
     const raw = await fs.readFile(filePath, "utf8");
     const rec = JSON.parse(raw);
     // Retroactive chunk-contiguity backfill must run BEFORE the
@@ -239,8 +251,8 @@ async function listMeetings(dataDir) {
 }
 
 async function deleteMeeting(dataDir, id) {
-  const filePath = path.join(meetingsDir(dataDir), `${id}.json`);
   try {
+    const filePath = meetingPath(dataDir, id);
     await fs.unlink(filePath);
     return true;
   } catch {
diff --git a/server/test/meeting-path.test.js b/server/test/meeting-path.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..24ddc06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/test/meeting-path.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+// Path-traversal guard for meeting record ids (internal-meetings.js
+// meetingPath). A caller-supplied :id must never escape the
+// internal-meetings/ directory.
+
+import { test, describe } from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { meetingPath } from "../routes/internal-meetings.js";
+
+const DATA = "/data";
+const DIR = path.join(DATA, "internal-meetings");
+
+describe("meetingPath", () => {
+  test("a normal UUID id maps into internal-meetings/", () => {
+    const id = "2f1c9b3a-0e4d-4a77-9d2a-abc123def456";
+    assert.equal(meetingPath(DATA, id), path.join(DIR, `${id}.json`));
+  });
+
+  test("traversal-shaped ids are sanitized and stay inside the dir", () => {
+    for (const id of ["../../etc/passwd", "../../../root/.ssh/id", "..%2f..%2fx", "a/b/c", "....//x"]) {
+      const p = meetingPath(DATA, id);
+      const rel = path.relative(DIR, p);
+      assert.ok(!rel.startsWith(".."), `${id} escaped to ${p}`);
+      assert.ok(!p.includes(".."), `${id} left ".." in ${p}`);
+      assert.ok(p.endsWith(".json"));
+    }
+  });
+
+  test("an id that sanitizes to empty throws (load/delete catch → 404 / no-op)", () => {
+    for (const id of ["", null, undefined, "/", "../", "...", "!!!"]) {
+      assert.throws(() => meetingPath(DATA, id), /invalid meeting id/);
+    }
+  });
+});