Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in pivottable

Description

Affected versions of pivottable are vulnerable to cross-site scripting, due to a new mechanism used to render JSON elements.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): >= 1.4.0, < 2.0.0
• Patched version(s): 2.0.0

References

• GHSA-cjj8-wfrx-jqcf
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2016-1000241
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• static-server Path Traversal vulnerability - CVE-2023-26152
• chromedriver Downloads Resources over HTTP - CVE-2016-10579
• Denial of service in http-proxy-middleware - CVE-2024-21536
• parse is vulnerable to prototype pollution - CVE-2025-57324

Tags:

npm

pivottable