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Security checkOctober 06, 2023

Simditor XSS Vulnerability

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Medium severitynpm simditor

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Description

Simditor v2.3.11 allows XSS via crafted use of svg/onload=alert in a TEXTAREA element, as demonstrated by Firefox 54.0.1.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

<= 2.3.11

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