Cross-Site Scripting in jquery.json-viewer (GHSA-v9wp-8r97-v6xg)

Description

Versions of jquery.json-viewer prior to 1.3.0 are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). The package insufficiently sanitizes user input when creating links, and concatenates the user input in an <a> tag.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 1.3.0
• Patched version(s): 1.3.0

References

• GHSA-v9wp-8r97-v6xg
• www.npmjs.com
• CWE-79
• OWASP 2021-A3

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Tags:

npm

jquery.json-viewer