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Security checkApril 12, 2025

YUI Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability - yui

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Medium severitynpmyui

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Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in uploader.swf in the Uploader component in Yahoo! YUI 3.2.0 through 3.9.1, as used in Moodle through 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.11, 2.3.x before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string in a URL.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

  • >= 3.2.0, <= 3.9.1

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