Sanitize-html Vulnerable To REDoS Attacks

Description

The package sanitize-html before 2.7.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure global regular expression replacement logic of HTML comment removal.

Recommendation

Update the sanitize-html package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 2.7.1
• Patched version(s): 2.7.1

References

• GHSA-cgfm-xwp7-2cvr
• security.snyk.io
• CVE-2022-25887
• CWE-1333
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Directory Traversal in node-simple-router - CVE-2017-16083
• csvjson vulnerable to prototype injection - CVE-2025-57318
• sanitize-html is vulnerable to XSS through incomprehensive sanitization - CVE-2019-25225
• Prebid.js NPM package briefly compromised - CVE-2025-59038

Tags:

npm

sanitize-html