Cross site scripting in valine

Description

valine is a fast, simple & powerful comment system. Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in xCss Valine v1.4.14 via the nick parameter to /classes/Comment. A fix was released in version 1.4.15.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 1.4.15
• Patched version(s): 1.4.15

References

• GHSA-6xvq-2gj8-4276
• CVE-2020-28847
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Cross-site scripting in jspdf - CVE-2020-7691
• Cross-site scripting in jspdf - jspdf - CVE-2020-7690
• Cross-site Scripting in markdown-it-highlightjs - CVE-2020-7773
• Cross-Site Scripting in Prism - prismjs - CVE-2020-15138

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Tags:

npm

valine