# CVE-2025-29771: HtmlSanitizer vulnerable to XSS when used with contentEditable

- Also known as: GHSA-VHV4-FH94-JM5X
- 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: 2.0.3
- Published: 2025-03-14 · Updated: 2025-03-18

## Affected

- jitbit HtmlSanitizer: fixed in 2.0.3
- @jitbit/htmlsanitizer (npm): fixed in 2.0.3

## Description

HtmlSanitizer is a client-side HTML Sanitizer. Versions prior to 2.0.3 have a cross-site scripting vulnerability when the sanitizer is used with a `contentEditable` element to set the elements `innerHTML` to a sanitized string produced by the package. If the code is particularly crafted to abuse the code beautifier, that runs AFTER sanitation. The issue is patched in version 2.0.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on jitbit HtmlSanitizer, @jitbit/htmlsanitizer, upgrade to a fixed version (2.0.3) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/jitbit/HtmlSanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-vhv4-fh94-jm5x
- https://github.com/jitbit/HtmlSanitizer/commit/af6d2a78877e7277cd01c825b7fb50edb5956963

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