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

• static-server Path Traversal vulnerability - CVE-2023-26152
• chromedriver Downloads Resources over HTTP - CVE-2016-10579
• Denial of service in http-proxy-middleware - CVE-2024-21536
• parse is vulnerable to prototype pollution - CVE-2025-57324

Tags:

npm

jquery.json-viewer