Vega vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting via RegExp.prototype[@@replace]

Description

Users running Vega/Vega-lite JSON definitions could run unexpected JavaScript code when drawing graphs, unless the library is used with the vega-interpreter.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 5.17.0
• Patched version(s): 5.17.0

References

• GHSA-963h-3v39-3pqf
• vega.github.io
• CVE-2025-27793
• CWE-79
• CWE-87
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Bootstrap Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability for data-* attributes - CVE-2024-6485
• react-native-keys insecurely stores encryption cipher and Base64 chunks - CVE-2025-45001
• nuxt vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in navigateTo if used after SSR - CVE-2024-34343
• Vega Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via event filter when not using CSP mode expressionInterpeter - CVE-2025-26619

Tags:

npm

vega-functions