Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting sanitize-html package, versions <2.0.0
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- published7 Sept 2020
- disclosed7 Sept 2020
- creditmikesamuel
Introduced: 7 Sep 2020
CVE-2019-25225 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade sanitize-html to version 2.0.0 or higher.
Overview
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 Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via the sanitizeHtml function when the custom transformTags option is used. An attacker can inject and execute malicious code by providing crafted input that is not properly sanitized.