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Critters Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 9, 2023 in GoogleChromeLabs/critters • Updated Nov 10, 2023

Package

npm critters (npm)

Affected versions

>= 0.0.17, <= 0.0.19

Patched versions

0.0.20

Description

Impact

Critters version 0.0.17-0.0.19 have an issue when parsing the HTML which leads to a potential cross-site scripting (XSS) bug.

Patches

The bug has been fixed in v0.0.20.

Workarounds

Upgrading Critters version to >0.0.20 is the easiest fix. This is a non breaking version upgrade so we recommend all users to use v0.0.20.

References

@janicklas-ralph janicklas-ralph published to GoogleChromeLabs/critters Aug 9, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 11, 2023
Reviewed Aug 11, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 21, 2023
Last updated Nov 10, 2023

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

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-3481

GHSA ID

GHSA-cx3j-qqxj-9597

Source code

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