HTML Injection Affecting shout package, versions <0.50.0 >=0.44.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:shout:20150122
  • published13 Feb 2017
  • disclosed21 Jan 2015
  • creditpangeacake

Introduced: 21 Jan 2015

CVE-2017-16043  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade shout to version 0.50.0 or higher.

Overview

shout is a self-hosted Web IRC client.

The topic message in src/plugins/irc-events/topic.js is not escaped and may allow attackers to inject arbitrary HTML scripts.

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