Cross-site Scripting in tempura

Description

This affects the package tempura before 0.4.0. If the input to the esc function is of type object (i.e an array) it is returned without being escaped/sanitized, leading to a potential Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 0.4.0
• Patched version(s): 0.4.0

References

• GHSA-w4v7-hwx7-9929
• snyk.io
• CVE-2021-23784
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Cross-site Scripting in sanitize-url - CVE-2021-23648
• Cross site scripting in datatables.net - CVE-2021-23445
• Docsify vulnerable to cross-site scripting due to mishandled encoding - CVE-2021-30074
• Cross-site Scripting in bootstrap-table - bootstrap-table - CVE-2021-23472

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Tags:

npm

tempura