Cross-Site Scripting in simditor

Description

Versions of simditor prior to 2.3.22 are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting. The package does not sanitize user input that is rendered with innerHTML, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 2.3.22
• Patched version(s): 2.3.22

References

• GHSA-8v67-x8q5-3x3g
• snyk.io
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2018-19048
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Joplin Vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in Note Content - CVE-2018-1000534
• Bootstrap Cross-site Scripting vulnerability - bootstrap - GHSA-pj7m-g53m-7638 - CVE-2018-14041
• Json2html vulnerable to cross-site scripting - CVE-2018-25053
• Bootstrap vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) - CVE-2018-14040

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Tags:

npm

simditor