Cross-Site Scripting in react (GHSA-g53w-52xc-2j85)

Description

Affected versions of react are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). The package fails to properly sanitize input used to create keys. This may allow attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript if a key is generated from user input.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): **>= 0.5.0, < 0.5.2

  >= 0.4.0, < 0.4.2**

• Patched version(s): **0.5.2

  0.4.2**

References

• GHSA-g53w-52xc-2j85
• reactjs.org
• snyk.io
• CVE-2013-7035
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• DOMPurify contains a Cross-site Scripting vulnerability (GHSA-v8jm-5vwx-cfxm) - CVE-2025-15599
• bootstrap Cross-site Scripting vulnerability (GHSA-ph58-4vrj-w6hr) 2 - CVE-2018-20677
• Bootstrap Cross-site Scripting vulnerability (GHSA-7mvr-5x2g-wfc8) 2 - CVE-2018-14042
• bootstrap Cross-site Scripting vulnerability (GHSA-ph58-4vrj-w6hr) - CVE-2018-20677

Tags:

npm

react