Cross-site Scripting in jquery.json-viewer

Description

The jquery.json-viewer library before version 1.5.0 for Node.js does not properly escape characters such as < in a JSON object, as demonstrated by a SCRIPT element.

Recommendation

Update the jquery.json-viewer package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 1.5.0
• Patched version(s): 1.5.0

References

• GHSA-qp2q-6h9j-jg2r
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2022-30241
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Cross-Site Scripting in jquery.json-viewer - jquery.json-viewer - Vulnerability
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• @dependencytrack/frontend vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site-Scripting via Vulnerability Details - CVE-2022-39350
• tagify can pass a malicious placeholder to initiate the cross-site scripting (XSS) payload - CVE-2022-25854

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Tags:

npm

jquery.json-viewer