Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Select2

Description

In Select2 through 4.0.5, as used in Snipe-IT and other products, rich selectlists allow XSS. This affects use cases with Ajax remote data loading when HTML templates are used to display listbox data.

Recommendation

Update the select2 package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 4.0.6
• Patched version(s): 4.0.6

References

• GHSA-rf66-hmqf-q3fc
• CVE-2016-10744
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

select2