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Security checkJanuary 30, 2023

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in serve-lite

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Medium severitynpmserve-lite

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Description

All versions of the package serve-lite are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) because when it detects a request to a directory, it renders a file listing of all of its contents with links that include the actual file names without any sanitization or output encoding.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

  • <= 1.1.0

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See something that needs correcting? Let us knowUpdated January 30, 2023