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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.08% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID npm:shout:20150122
  • published 13 Feb 2017
  • disclosed 21 Jan 2015
  • credit pangeacake

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

6.1 medium