auth0-lock vulnerable to XSS via unsanitized placeholder property

Description

Auth0 Lock version 11.20.4 and earlier did not properly sanitize the generated HTML code. Customers using the additionalSignUpFields customization option to add a checkbox to the sign-up dialog that are passing a placeholder property obtained from an untrusted source (e.g.

Recommendation

Update the auth0-lock package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 11.21.0
• Patched version(s): 11.21.0

References

• GHSA-w2pf-g6r8-pg22
• auth0.com
• CVE-2019-20174
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

auth0-lock