# CVE-2025-27793: Vega vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting via RegExp.prototype\[@@replace\]

- Also known as: GHSA-963H-3V39-3PQF
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.32.0, 5.17.0
- Published: 2025-03-27 · Updated: 2025-03-27

## Affected

- vega: fixed in 5.32.0
- vega (npm): fixed in 5.32.0
- vega-functions (npm): fixed in 5.17.0

## Description

Vega is a visualization grammar, a declarative format for creating, saving, and sharing interactive visualization designs. In Vega prior to version 5.32.0, corresponding to vega-functions prior to version 5.17.0, users running Vega/Vega-lite JSON definitions could run unexpected JavaScript code when drawing graphs, unless the library was used with the `vega-interpreter`. Vega version 5.32.0 and vega-functions version 5.17.0 fix the issue. As a workaround, use `vega` with expression interpreter.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on vega, vega-functions, upgrade to a fixed version (5.32.0, 5.17.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/vega/vega/security/advisories/GHSA-963h-3v39-3pqf
- https://github.com/vega/vega/commit/694560c0aa576df8b6c5f0f7d202ac82233e6966
- https://github.com/vega/vega/releases/tag/v5.32.0
- https://vega.github.io/vega/usage/interpreter

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