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By-passing Cross-Site Scripting Protection in HTML Sanitizer

Moderate
ohader published GHSA-47m6-46mj-p235 Sep 13, 2022

Package

composer typo3/html-sanitizer (Composer)

Affected versions

1.0.0-1.0.6, 2.0.0-2.0.15

Patched versions

1.0.7, 2.0.16

Description

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  • CVSS: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:F/RL:O/RC:C (5.7)

Problem

Due to a parsing issue in upstream package masterminds/html5, malicious markup used in a sequence with special HTML comments cannot be filtered and sanitized. This allows to by-pass the cross-site scripting mechanism of typo3/html-sanitizer.

Solution

Update to typo3/html-sanitizer versions 1.0.7 or 2.0.16 that fix the problem described.

Credits

Thanks to David Klein who reported this issue, and to TYPO3 security team member Oliver Hader who fixed the issue.

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:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2022-36020

Weaknesses

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