Twitter-Post-Fetcher vulnerable to Use of Web Link to Untrusted Target with window.opener Access

Description

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Twitter-Post-Fetcher up to 17.x. This affects an unknown part of the file js/twitterFetcher.js of the component Link Target Handler. The manipulation leads to use of web link to untrusted target with window.opener access. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely.

Recommendation

Update the twitter-fetcher-js package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 18.0.0
• Patched version(s): 18.0.0

References

• GHSA-m688-cx2p-rgq9
• vuldb.com
• CVE-2018-25058
• CWE-1022
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

twitter-fetcher-js