XSS due to lack of CSRF validation for replying/publishing

Description

Due to lack of CSRF validation, a logged in user is potentially vulnerable to an XSS attack which could allow a third party to post on their behalf on the forum.

Recommendation

Update the nodebb-plugin-blog-comments package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 0.7.0
• Patched version(s): 0.7.0

References

• GHSA-43m5-c88r-cjvv
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2020-15156
• CWE-352
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• Vite's `server.fs` settings were not applied to HTML files - CVE-2025-58752
• Trix editor subject to XSS vulnerabilities on copy & paste - CVE-2024-53847
• Knwl.js Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability - CVE-2020-26306
• VvvebJs Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability - CVE-2024-29271

Tags:

npm

nodebb-plugin-blog-comments