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

• tagify can pass a malicious placeholder to initiate the cross-site scripting (XSS) payload - CVE-2022-25854
• Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in crud-file-server - CVE-2018-3726
• CleverTap Web SDK is vulnerable to DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via window.postMessage - CVE-2026-26862
• WordPress Akal Theme Cross Site Scripting - CVE-2016-10957

Tags:

npm

pivottable