external-svg-loader Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Description

According to the docs, svg-loader will strip all JS code before injecting the SVG file for security reasons but the input sanitization logic is not sufficient and can be trivially bypassed. This allows an attacker to craft a malicious SVG which can result in XSS.

Recommendation

Update the external-svg-loader package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 1.6.9
• Patched version(s): 1.6.9

References

• GHSA-xc2r-jf2x-gjr8
• CVE-2023-40013
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lodash - CVE-2020-28500
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• Elliptic's verify function omits uniqueness validation - CVE-2024-48949
• secp256k1-node allows private key extraction over ECDH - CVE-2024-48930

Tags:

npm

external-svg-loader