Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Verdaccio

Description

What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?

Cross-Site Scripting XSS, malicious packages with content Javascript that might be executed in the User Interface stealing user credentials.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 3.12.0
• Patched version(s): 3.12.0

References

• GHSA-78j5-gcmf-vqc8
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2019-14772
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• AngularJS Cross-site Scripting due to failure to sanitize `xlink.href` attributes - CVE-2019-14863
• Cross-Site Scripting in min-http-server - CVE-2019-5457
• CleverTap Web SDK is vulnerable to DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via window.postMessage - CVE-2026-26862
• DOM-based cross-site scripting in Froala Editor - CVE-2019-19935

Tags:

npm

verdaccio