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

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• Bootstrap Cross-site Scripting vulnerability - bootstrap - GHSA-7mvr-5x2g-wfc8 - CVE-2018-14042
• Cross-Site Scripting in connect - CVE-2018-3717

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Tags:

npm

simditor