GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-g8jj-899q-8x3j Cross-site scripting in json-sanitizer

MEDIUM Published 2022-02-10 Modified 2021-05-13 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2020-13973
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
com.mikesamuel:json-sanitizer
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79
Reviewed
2021-05-13

Affected packages

• Maven com.mikesamuel:json-sanitizer: < 1.2.1 → fixed in 1.2.1

Description

OWASP json-sanitizer before 1.2.1 allows XSS. An attacker who controls a substring of the input JSON, and controls another substring adjacent to a SCRIPT element in which the output is embedded as JavaScript, may be able to confuse the HTML parser as to where the SCRIPT element ends, and cause non-script content to be interpreted as JavaScript.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2020-13973 OWASP json-sanitizer before 1.2.1 allows XSS. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References