materialize-css vulnerable to cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to improper escape of user input

Description

All versions of package materialize-css are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to improper escape of user input (such as <not-a-tag />) that is being parsed as HTML/JavaScript, and inserted into the Document Object Model (DOM). This vulnerability can be exploited when the user-input is provided to the autocomplete component.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 1.0.0

References

• GHSA-7jvx-f994-rfw2
• snyk.io
• CVE-2022-25349
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Materialize-css vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in tooltip component - materialize-css - CVE-2019-11002
• Materialize-css vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in autocomplete component - materialize-css - CVE-2019-11003
• Materialize-css vulnerable to Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation - materialize-css - CVE-2019-11004
• Materialize-css vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in tooltip component - CVE-2019-11002

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npm

materialize-css