Vega Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via event filter when not using CSP mode expressionInterpeter (GHSA-rcw3-wmx7-cphr)

Description

In vega 5.30.0 and lower, vega-functions 5.15.0 and lower , it was possible to call JavaScript functions from the Vega expression language that were not meant to be supported.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 5.31.0
• Patched version(s): 5.31.0

References

• GHSA-rcw3-wmx7-cphr
• CVE-2025-26619
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Vega vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting via RegExp.prototype[@@replace] (GHSA-963h-3v39-3pqf) - CVE-2025-27793
• jose vulnerable to resource exhaustion via specifically crafted JWE with compressed plaintext (GHSA-hhhv-q57g-882q) - CVE-2024-28176
• Vega allows Cross-site Scripting via the vlSelectionTuples function - CVE-2025-25304
• Vega has Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in `lassoAppend` function (GHSA-w5m3-xh75-mp55) - CVE-2023-26487

Tags:

npm

vega