CVE-2018-1000162

N/A

Description

Parsedown version prior to 1.7.0 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in `setMarkupEscaped` for escaping HTML that can result in JavaScript code execution. This attack appears to be exploitable via specially crafted markdown that allows it to side step HTML escaping by breaking AST boundaries. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.7.0 and later.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published4/18/2018

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

parsedown:parsedown

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79

References

https://github.com/Roave/SecurityAdvisories/issues/44#issuecomment-368594409(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/erusev/parsedown/pull/495(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/Roave/SecurityAdvisories/issues/44#issuecomment-368594409(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/erusev/parsedown/pull/495(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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