Glossarizer Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Description

Glossarizer through 1.5.2 improperly tries to convert text into HTML. Even though the application itself escapes special characters (e.g., <>), the underlying library converts these encoded characters into legitimate HTML, thereby possibly causing stored XSS. Attackers can append a XSS payload to a word that has a corresponding glossary entry.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 1.5.2

References

• GHSA-hhhv-ggjx-q9j2
• herolab.usd.de
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2024-42515
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• TinyMCE Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability using noscript elements - CVE-2024-38357
• Cross-site scripting vulnerability in TinyMCE plugins - CVE-2024-21910
• Cross-site scripting vulnerability in TinyMCE - CVE-2024-21908
• Code Snippet GeSHi plugin in CKEditor 4 has reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability - CVE-2024-43407

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Tags:

npm

glossarizer