XSS via JQLite DOM manipulation functions in AngularJS

Description

XSS may be triggered in AngularJS applications that sanitize user-controlled HTML snippets before passing them to JQLite methods like JQLite.prepend, JQLite.after, JQLite.append, JQLite.replaceWith, JQLite.append, new JQLite and angular.element.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 1.8.0
• Patched version(s): 1.8.0

References

• GHSA-5cp4-xmrw-59wf
• blog.jquery.com
• snyk.io
• CWE-79
• OWASP 2021-A3

Related Issues

• Angular vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting - CVE-2020-7676
• Path Traversal: 'dir/../../filename' in moment.locale - CVE-2022-24785
• AngularJS allows attackers to bypass common image source restrictions (GHSA-mqm9-c95h-x2p6) - CVE-2024-8373
• AngularJS allows attackers to bypass common image source restrictions - CVE-2024-8372

Tags:

npm

angular