Cross-Site Scripting in min-http-server

Description

All versions of min-http-server are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). The package fails to sanitize filenames, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the victim’s browser through files with names containing malicious code.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 1.0.6

References

• GHSA-j657-59rv-qwm6
• hackerone.com
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2019-5457
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Cross-Site Scripting in http-file-server - CVE-2019-5458
• Parse Server vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS) via SVG file upload - CVE-2026-30948
• Materialize-css vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in tooltip component (GHSA-98f7-p5rc-jx67) - CVE-2019-11002
• Materialize-css vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in tooltip component - CVE-2019-11002

Tags:

npm

min-http-server