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Cross-Site Scripting in html-pages

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 7, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 12, 2023

Package

npm html-pages (npm)

Affected versions

<= 3.1.0

Patched versions

None

Description

All versions of html-pages are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). The package fails to sanitize folder names, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser through folders with names containing malicious code.

Recommendation

No fix is currently available. Consider using an alternative package until a fix is made available.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 7, 2019
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Sep 12, 2023

Severity

Moderate
6.1
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-16481

GHSA ID

GHSA-5p26-hw7f-3cpr

Source code

No known source code
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