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Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting html-janitor package, versions <2.0.4

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature
    EPSS 0.08% (31st percentile)
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NVD
6.1 medium

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  • Snyk ID npm:html-janitor:20180123
  • published 11 Feb 2018
  • disclosed 23 Jan 2018
  • credit Martin Bajanik
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Introduced: 23 Jan 2018

CVE-2017-0928 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-79 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade html-janitor to version 2.0.4 or higher.

Overview

html-janitor is a library that cleans up your markup and allows you to take control of your HTML.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). Arbitrary HTML can pass the sanitization process, which can be unexpected and dangerous (XSS) in case user-controlled input is passed to the clean function.

PoC by Martin Bajanik 

var myJanitor = new HTMLJanitor({tags:{p:{}}});
var cleanHtml = myJanitor.clean("<form><object onmouseover=alert(document.domain) name=_sanitized></object></form>")
console.log(cleanHtml) 
// logs: <form><object onmouseover=alert(document.domain) name=_sanitized></object></form>