Stored Cross-Site Scripting in simplehttpserver

Description

Simplehttpserver prior to version 0.1.0 are vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS). To be exploited an attacker needs to control the filename of a file that is used in the directory listing output. This version is patched in 0.1.0

Recommendation

Update the simplehttpserver package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 0.1.0
• Patched version(s): 0.1.0

References

• GHSA-jrhj-2j3q-xf3v
• hackerone.com
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2018-3716
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• metascraper before v5.2.0 vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting - CVE-2018-3773
• Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in crud-file-server - CVE-2018-3726
• bootstrap Cross-site Scripting vulnerability - bootstrap-sass - GHSA-ph58-4vrj-w6hr - CVE-2018-20677
• Joplin Vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in Note Content - CVE-2018-1000534

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Tags:

npm

simplehttpserver