Sanitization bypass using HTML Entities in marked

Description

Affected versions of marked are susceptible to a cross-site scripting vulnerability in link components when sanitize:true is configured.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 0.3.6
• Patched version(s): 0.3.6

References

• GHSA-vfvf-mqq8-rwqc
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2016-10531
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Command Injection in lodash (GHSA-35jh-r3h4-6jhm) - CVE-2021-23337
• Marked allows Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks - CVE-2018-25110
• Bootstrap Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability - CVE-2024-6531
• Regular Expression Denial of Service in jsoneditor - CVE-2021-3822

Tags:

npm

marked