Cross-Site Scripting in markdown-to-jsx
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Sep 3, 2020
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 9, 2023
Description
Reviewed
Aug 31, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Sep 3, 2020
Last updated
Jan 9, 2023
Versions of
markdown-to-jsx
prior to 6.11.4 are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting. Due to insufficient input sanitization the package may render output containing malicious JavaScript. This vulnerability can be exploited through input of links containingdata
or VBScript URIs and a base64-encoded payload.Recommendation
Upgrade to version 6.11.4 or later.
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