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CVE-2023-22461GHSA-H857-2G56-468G

sanitize-svg Filter Bypass Allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.4, 0.4.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

The `sanitize-svg` package, a small SVG sanitizer to prevent cross-site scripting attacks, uses a deny-list-pattern to sanitize SVGs to prevent XSS. In doing so, literal `<script>`-tags and on-event handlers were detected in versions prior to 0.4.0. As a result, downstream software that relies on `sanitize-svg` and expects resulting SVGs to be safe, may be vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability was addressed in v0.4.0. There are no known workarounds

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • mattkrick sanitize-svg

    fixed in 0.4

  • @mattkrick/sanitize-svgnpm

    fixed in 0.4.0

References 2

GitHub · mattkrick/sanitize-svg