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Security checkAugust 05, 2024

Bootstrap Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

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Medium severitynpmbootstrap-sass

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Description

In Bootstrap 2.x from 2.0.4, 3.x before 3.4.0 and 4.x-beta before 4.0.0-beta.2, XSS is possible in the data-target attribute. Note that this is a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-14041.

See https://blog.getbootstrap.com/2018/12/13/bootstrap-3-4-0/ for more info.

Recommendation

Update the bootstrap-sass package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): >= 2.0.4, < 3.4.0
  • Patched version(s): 3.4.0

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