GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-wg96-3933-j2w5 Cross-Site Scripting in sanitize-html

MEDIUM Published 2018-11-09 Modified 2023-09-08 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2017-16017
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
sanitize-html
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• npm sanitize-html: < 1.2.3 → fixed in 1.2.3

Description

Affected versions of `sanitize-html` are vulnerable to cross-site scripting. Proof of Concept: `` produces the following: `` This is definitely invalid HTML, but would suggest that it's being interpreted incorrectly by the parser. Recommendation Update to version 1.2.3 or later.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2017-16017 sanitize-html is a library for scrubbing html input for malicious values Versions 1.2.2 and below have a cross site scripting vulnerability. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References