sanitize-html@1.1.0 vulnerabilities

sanitize-html is a library that allows you to clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving whitelisted elements and whitelisted attributes on a per-element basis

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure when used on the backend and with the style attribute allowed, allowing enumeration of files in the system (including project dependencies). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gather details about the file system structure and dependencies of the targeted server.

Upgrade sanitize-html to version 2.12.1 or higher.

sanitize-html is a library that allows you to clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving whitelisted elements and whitelisted attributes on a per-element basis

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure global regular expression replacement logic of HTML comment removal.

Upgrade sanitize-html to version 2.7.1 or higher.

sanitize-html is a library that allows you to clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving whitelisted elements and whitelisted attributes on a per-element basis

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Internationalized domain name (IDN) is not properly handled. This allows attackers to bypass hostname whitelist validation set by the allowedIframeHostnames option.

Upgrade sanitize-html to version 2.3.1 or higher.

sanitize-html is a library that allows you to clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving whitelisted elements and whitelisted attributes on a per-element basis

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Validation Bypass. There is no proper validation of the hostnames set by the allowedIframeHostnames option when the allowIframeRelativeUrls is set to true. This allows attackers to bypass the hostname whitelist for the iframe element.

Upgrade sanitize-html to version 2.3.2 or higher.

sanitize-html is a library that allows you to clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving whitelisted elements and whitelisted attributes on a per-element basis

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. Tag transformations which turn an attribute value into a text node using transformTags could be vulnerable to code execution.

Upgrade sanitize-html to version 2.0.0-beta or higher.

sanitize-html is a library for scrubbing html input of malicious values.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to unescaped double quotes.

Entering the following:

<IMG SRC= onmouseover="alert('XSS');">

produces the following:

<img src="onmouseover="alert('XSS');"" />

Upgrade sanitize-html to version 1.2.3 or higher.

sanitize-html is a library for scrubbing html input of malicious values.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. If at least one nonTextTags tag is allowed, a malicious user may potentially conduct an XSS attack.

PoC:

var sanitizeHtml = require('sanitize-html');

var dirty = '!<textarea>&lt;/textarea&gt;<svg/onload=prompt`xs`&gt;</textarea>!';
var clean = sanitizeHtml(dirty, {
    allowedTags: [ 'textarea' ]
});

console.log(clean);

// !<textarea></textarea><svg/onload=prompt`xs`></textarea>!

Upgrade sanitize-html to version 1.11.4 or later.

Sanitization of HTML strings is not applied recursively to input, allowing an attacker to potentially inject script and other markup.

Source: Node Security Project

Upgrade sanitize-html to 1.4.3 or later

Since the sanitize-html module trusts 'text' coming from htmlparser2, and outputs it without further escaping (because htmlparser2 does not decode entities in text before delivering it), this results in an XSS attack vector if sanitize-html ignores the img tag (according to user-configured filter rules) but passes the text intact, as it must do to keep any text in documents.