Cross-Site Scripting in markdown-to-jsx - markdown-to-jsx

Description

Versions of markdown-to-jsx prior to 6.11.4 are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting. Due to insufficient input sanitization the package may render output containing malicious JavaScript. This vulnerability can be exploited through input of links containing data or VBScript URIs and a base64-encoded payload.

Recommendation

Update the markdown-to-jsx package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 6.11.4
• Patched version(s): 6.11.4

References

• GHSA-ccrp-c664-8p4j
• www.npmjs.com
• CWE-79
• OWASP 2021-A3

Related Issues

• Cross site scripting in markdown-to-jsx - CVE-2024-21535
• Cross-Site Scripting in markdown-it-katex - Vulnerability
• CKEditor5 cross-site scripting vulnerability caused by the editor instance destroying process - @ckeditor/ckeditor5-markdown-gfm - CVE-2022-31175
• Cross-Site Scripting in react-marked-markdown - Vulnerability

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Tags:

npm

markdown-to-jsx