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Security checkFebruary 01, 2023

Command Injection in @theia/messages

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Medium severitynpm @theia/messages

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Description

In Eclipse Theia versions up to and including 0.16.0, in the notification messages there is no HTML escaping, so Javascript code can run.

Recommendation

Update the @theia/messages package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

Affected version(s): < 1.0.0
Patched version(s): 1.0.0

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