Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package dompurify.js  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
1.46% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-DOMPURIFYJS-642083
  • published25 Sept 2019
  • disclosed24 Sept 2019

Introduced: 24 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-16728  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dompurify.js package and not the dompurify.js package as distributed by Ubuntu.

DOMPurify before 2.0.1 allows XSS because of innerHTML mutation XSS (mXSS) for an SVG element or a MATH element, as demonstrated by Chrome and Safari.