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Security checkSeptember 12, 2023

XSS in hello.js

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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

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