@dependencytrack/frontend vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site-Scripting via welcome message

Description

Since version 4.12.0, Dependency-Track users with the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission can configure a “welcome message”, which is HTML that is to be rendered on the login page for branding purposes.

When rendering the welcome message, Dependency-Track versions before 4.13.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): >= 4.12.0, < 4.13.6
• Patched version(s): 4.13.6

References

• GHSA-7xvh-c266-cfr5
• CVE-2025-64758
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

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• jsondiffpatch is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via HtmlFormatter::nodeBegin - CVE-2025-9910
• @sveltejs/kit vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting via tracked search_params - CVE-2025-32388

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@dependencytrack/frontend