Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package select2 (opens in a new tab)
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Start learning- Snyk IDnpm:select2:20130108
- published13 Mar 2017
- disclosed7 Jan 2013
- creditJelte Fennema
Introduced: 7 Jan 2013
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade select2 to version 3.3.0 or higher.
Overview
select2 is a jQuery based replacement for select boxes. It supports searching, remote data sets, and infinite scrolling of results.
Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). The escapeMarkup function escaped only &, and not html tags, quotes or slashes.
Details
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