CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-125128
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-09-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 596c5446-0ce5-4ba2-aa66-48b3b757a647
- CVSS 3.1 (596c5446-0ce5-4ba2-aa66-48b3b757a647)
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
'sanitize-html' prior to version 1.0.3 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). The function 'naughtyHref' doesn't properly validate the hyperreference (`href`) attribute in anchor tags (`<a>`), allowing bypasses that contain different casings, whitespace characters, or hexadecimal encodings.
Affected configurations
• apostrophecms sanitize-html (< 1.0.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://github.com/Checkmarx/Vulnerabilities-Proofs-of-Concept/tree/main/2014/CVE-2014-125128 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/423b90e06e1e85245eccedaabeb3a82840c6cd86 Patch
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/889d4ec968e175f1905b2eb9d33f1fa89217cb02 Patch
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/issues/1 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory