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Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting sanitize-html package, versions <2.0.0-beta

0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-SANITIZEHTML-585892
  • published 7 Sep 2020
  • disclosed 7 Sep 2020
  • credit mikesamuel
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Introduced: 7 Sep 2020

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How to fix?

Upgrade sanitize-html to version 2.0.0-beta or higher.

Overview

sanitize-html is a library that allows you to clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving whitelisted elements and whitelisted attributes on a per-element basis

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. Tag transformations which turn an attribute value into a text node using transformTags could be vulnerable to code execution.

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