Bypassing Sanitization using DOM clobbering in html-janitor

MEDIO 6.1CVE-2017-0928 · GHSA-fx46-whrj-73v5 · Published 04/06/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In breve

CVE-2017-0928 è una vulnerabilità MEDIO (CVSS 6.1) che riguarda html-janitor (theguardian), html-janitor.
Probabilità di sfruttamento nei prossimi 30 giorni (EPSS): 1.0%, superiore al 63.7% delle vulnerabilità.
Nessuna versione corretta ancora nota: segui l'avviso del produttore nei riferimenti.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
html-janitor theguardian	`= 2.0.2`	No fix yet
html-janitor npm	`all versions`	No fix yet

Description

All versions of html-janitor are vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS).

Arbitrary HTML can pass the sanitization process, which can be unexpected and dangerous (XSS) in case user-controlled input is passed to the clean function."

Recommendation

Upgrade to version 2.0.4 or later.

NVD description

html-janitor node module suffers from an External Control of Critical State Data vulnerability via user-control of the '_sanitized' variable causing sanitization to be bypassed.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-0928 · ADVISORY
guardian/html-janitor · WEB
hackerone.com/reports/308158 · WEB
GitHub Advisory GHSA-fx46-whrj-73v5 · ADVISORY
npmjs.com/advisories/569 · WEB

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