CVE-2017-11593

MEDIUM 6.1CVE-2017-11593 · Published 24/07/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-11593 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting markdown preview plus (ooso).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.76%, higher than 55.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
markdown preview plus ooso	`≤ 0.4.5`	No fix yet

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Markdown Preview Plus extension before 0.5.7 for Chrome allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML into some web applications via the upload and display of crafted text, markdown, or rst files that are designed to be viewed in the browser as plain text, but that will be converted to HTML without proper sanitization.

References

volca/markdown-preview commit 1181f04 · Patch
volca/markdown-preview · Exploit

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