@dependencytrack/frontend vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site-Scripting via Vulnerability Details

Description

Due to the common practice of providing vulnerability details in markdown format, the Dependency-Track frontend renders them using the JavaScript library Showdown. Showdown does not have any XSS countermeasures built in), and versions before 4.6.1 of the Dependency-Track frontend did not encode or sanitize Showdown’s output.

Recommendation

Update the @dependencytrack/frontend package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 4.6.1
• Patched version(s): 4.6.1

References

• GHSA-c33w-pm52-mqvf
• docs.dependencytrack.org
• CVE-2022-39350
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• @dependencytrack/frontend vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site-Scripting via welcome message - CVE-2025-64758
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• mxGraph vulnerable to cross-site scripting in setTooltips function - CVE-2022-40440
• @sveltejs/kit vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting via tracked search_params - CVE-2025-32388

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@dependencytrack/frontend