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

• Bypassing Sanitization using DOM clobbering in html-janitor - CVE-2017-0928
• Authentication Bypass in console-io - CVE-2016-10532
• Cross-Site Scripting in sanitize-html (GHSA-3j7m-hmh3-9jmp) - CVE-2016-1000237
• Authentication Bypass in hapi-auth-jwt2 - CVE-2016-10525

Tags:

npm

marked