Vulnerability CVE-2017-16016
Published: 2018-06-04

Description:
Sanitize-html is a library for scrubbing html input of malicious values. Versions 1.11.1 and below are vulnerable to cross site scripting (XSS) in certain scenarios: If allowed at least one nonTextTags, the result is a potential XSS vulnerability.

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Punkave -> Sanitize-html 

 References:
https://github.com/punkave/sanitize-html/commit/5d205a1005ba0df80e21d8c64a15bb3accdb2403
https://github.com/punkave/sanitize-html/issues/100
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/154
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