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Security checkSeptember 07, 2023

Sanitization bypass using HTML Entities in marked

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Medium severitynpmmarked

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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

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