Cross-Site Scripting in sanitize-html

MEDIUM 6.1CVE-2016-1000237 · GHSA-3j7m-hmh3-9jmp · Published 23/01/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-1000237 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting sanitize-html (apostrophecms), sanitize-html.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.84%, higher than 57.9% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.4.3 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
sanitize-html apostrophecms	`< 1.4.3`	`1.4.3`
sanitize-html npm	`< 1.4.3`	`1.4.3`

Affected versions of sanitize-html do not sanitize input recursively, which may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary Javascript.

Update to version 1.4.3 or later.

NVD description

sanitize-html before 1.4.3 has XSS.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

< 1.4.3

1.4.3

npm

< 1.4.3

1.4.3

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