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ghsa-389w-f784-rjg3

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-09-08 12:30

Modified

2025-09-08 12:30

Severity ?

6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

'sanitize-html' prior to version 1.0.3 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). The function 'naughtyHref' doesn't properly validate the hyperreference (href) attribute in anchor tags (<a>), allowing bypasses that contain different casings, whitespace characters, or hexadecimal encodings.

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  "id": "GHSA-389w-f784-rjg3",
  "modified": "2025-09-08T12:30:33Z",
  "published": "2025-09-08T12:30:33Z",
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CVE-2014-125128 (GCVE-0-2014-125128)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-09-08 10:09

Modified

2025-09-08 13:43

Severity ?

6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting')

Summary

'sanitize-html' prior to version 1.0.3 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). The function 'naughtyHref' doesn't properly validate the hyperreference (`href`) attribute in anchor tags (`<a>`), allowing bypasses that contain different casings, whitespace characters, or hexadecimal encodings.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/issues/1	issue-tracking
	https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/889d4ec968e175f1905b2eb9d33f1fa89217cb02	patch
	https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/423b90e06e1e85245eccedaabeb3a82840c6cd86	patch
	https://github.com/Checkmarx/Vulnerabilities-Proofs-of-Concept/tree/main/2014/CVE-2014-125128	exploit

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
			Version: 0

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or seen somewhere by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability is confirmed from an analyst perspective.
Exploited: This vulnerability was exploited and seen by the user reporting the sighting.
Patched: This vulnerability was successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.
Not exploited: This vulnerability was not exploited or seen by the user reporting the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expresses doubt about the veracity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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