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Security checkJune 21, 2024

Cross site scripting in datatables.net

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Medium severitynpmdatatables.net

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Description

This affects the package datatables.net before 1.11.3. If an array is passed to the HTML escape entities function it would not have its contents escaped.

Recommendation

Update the datatables.net package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): < 1.11.3
  • Patched version(s): 1.11.3

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