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Security checkFebruary 01, 2023

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Eclipse Theia

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High severitynpm @theia/preview

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Description

In Eclipse Theia versions up to and including 1.2.0, the Markdown Preview (@theia/preview), can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

Recommendation

Update the @theia/preview package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

Affected version(s): < 1.2.0
Patched version(s): 1.3.0

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