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Security checkSeptember 12, 2023

Cross-Site Scripting in html-janitor

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Medium severitynpmhtml-janitor

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Description

Versions of html-janitor prior to 2.0.2 (all current versions) are vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS).

This is exploitable if user-controlled data is passed into the modules clean() function.

Recommendation

Update the html-janitor package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): < 2.0.3
  • Patched version(s): 2.0.3

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