Cross-Site Scripting in marked

Description

Versions 0.3.7 and earlier of marked unescape only lowercase while owsers support both lowercase and uppercase x in hexadecimal form of HTML character entity

Recommendation

Update the marked package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 0.3.9
• Patched version(s): 0.3.9

References

• GHSA-8wp3-cp9v-44fm

Related Issues

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• QMarkdown Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability - CVE-2025-43954
• Cross-site scripting vulnerability in TinyMCE alerts - CVE-2022-23494

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npm

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