Cross-Site Scripting in sanitize-html

Description

Affected versions of sanitize-html are vulnerable to cross-site scripting.

Recommendation

Update the sanitize-html package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 1.2.3
• Patched version(s): 1.2.3

References

• GHSA-wg96-3933-j2w5
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2017-16017
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Cross-Site Scripting in sanitize-html - sanitize-html - CVE-2017-16016
• Cross-Site Scripting in sanitize-html - sanitize-html - GHSA-3j7m-hmh3-9jmp - CVE-2016-1000237
• Cross-Site Scripting in html-janitor - CVE-2017-0931
• Solid Lacks Escaping of HTML in JSX Fragments allows for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) - CVE-2025-27109

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Tags:

npm

sanitize-html