Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting org.webjars.bower:editor.md package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-539679
  • published26 Nov 2019
  • disclosed1 Aug 2019
  • creditpzyc0k

Introduced: 1 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-14517  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for org.webjars.bower:editor.md.

Overview

org.webjars.bower:editor.md is a open source embeddable online markdown editor (component), based on CodeMirror & jQuery & Marked.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via the Javascript: string.

##POC by pzyc0k: [xss poc](Javascript:alert("pzyc0 poc xss with cookie: " + document.cookie))

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