Slim Select has potential Cross-site Scripting issue

Description

Slim Select 2.0 versions through 2.9.0 are affected by a potential cross-site scripting vulnerability. In select.ts:createOption(), the text variable from the user-provided Options object is assigned to an innerHTML without sanitation.

Recommendation

Update the slim-select package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): >= 2.0.0, < 2.9.2
• Patched version(s): 2.9.2

References

• GHSA-qvqv-mcxr-x8qw
• vulncheck.com
• CVE-2024-9440
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• @mozilla/readability Denial of Service through Regex - CVE-2025-2792
• ejson shell parser in MongoDB Compass maybe bypassed - CVE-2024-6376

Tags:

npm

slim-select