XSS in hello.js

Description

This affects the package hello.js before 1.18.6. The code get the param oauth_redirect from url and pass it to location.assign without any check and sanitisation. So we can simply pass some XSS payloads into the url param oauth_redirect, such as javascript:alert(1).

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 1.18.6
• Patched version(s): 1.18.6

References

• GHSA-7jh9-6cpf-h4m7
• snyk.io
• CVE-2020-7741
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

hellojs