CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-1000162

6.1 MEDIUM Published 2018-04-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-04-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79

Description

Parsedown version prior to 1.7.0 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in `setMarkupEscaped` for escaping HTML that can result in JavaScript code execution. This attack appears to be exploitable via specially crafted markdown that allows it to side step HTML escaping by breaking AST boundaries. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.7.0 and later.

Affected configurations

• parsedown parsedown (< 1.7.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References