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Known vulnerabilities in the serve-static package. This does not include vulnerabilities belonging to this package’s dependencies.

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Cross-site Scripting

serve-static is a server.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting due to improper sanitization of user input in the redirect function. An attacker can manipulate the redirection process by injecting malicious code into the input.

Note

To exploit this vulnerability, the following conditions are required:

  1. The attacker should be able to control the input to response.redirect()

  2. express must not redirect before the template appears

  3. the browser must not complete redirection before:

  4. the user must click on the link in the template

How to fix Cross-site Scripting?

Upgrade serve-static to version 1.16.0, 2.1.0 or higher.

<1.16.0 >=2.0.0 <2.1.0
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