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MEDIUM6.1

GHSA-j8r4-32c5-33rc

xhtml-purifier has HTML attribute-injection (sanitizer bypass) that leads to XSS

Quick fix

GHSA-j8r4-32c5-33rc — xhtml-purifier: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install xhtml-purifier@0.4.3

Details

xhtml-purifier does not HTML-entity-encode attribute values when serializing its sanitized output. In attributeString() (XHTMLPurifier.js, around line 148) the attribute value is concatenated directly into a double-quoted attribute without encoding. As a result, an attacker-controlled value in any allowed attribute (class, style, title, alt, src, href) can include a double-quote character to break out of the attribute and inject an additional attribute, such as a JavaScript event handler (for example onmouseover or onerror). The injected handler survives sanitization and executes when the output is rendered, which is a sanitizer bypass leading to cross-site scripting. The fix HTML-entity-encodes attribute values before serialization.

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Affected packages

npm/xhtml-purifier
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.4.3
Fixnpm install xhtml-purifier@0.4.3

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