Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting quill package, versions >=1.0.0-beta.0 <1.0.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk ID npm:quill:20160916
  • published 28 Feb 2017
  • disclosed 15 Sep 2016
  • credit Sajjad Hashemian

Introduced: 15 Sep 2016

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How to fix?

Upgrade quill to version 1.0.4 or higher.

Overview

quill is powerful, rich text editor. Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution due to not sanitizing user input when in the pasteHTML() function. The function was renamed, deprecated and was set to be removed in version 2.0.0.

var quill = new Quill('#editor', {
  theme: 'snow'
});

quill.pasteHTML('<img src=// onerror="alert(&#39;Not Found!&#39;)">');

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

5.4 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None