MEDIUM 6.1 npm
Cross-site Scripting in dompurify
GHSA-63q7-h895-m982 · CVE-2020-26870
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Description
Cure53 DOMPurify before 2.0.17 allows mutation XSS. This occurs because a serialize-parse roundtrip does not necessarily return the original DOM tree, and a namespace can change from HTML to MathML, as demonstrated by nesting of FORM elements.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26870
- WEB https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/commit/02724b8eb048dd219d6725b05c3000936f11d62d
- PACKAGE https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify
- WEB https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/compare/2.0.16...2.0.17
- WEB https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00029.html
- WEB https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-26870
- WEB https://research.securitum.com/mutation-xss-via-mathml-mutation-dompurify-2-0-17-bypass
- WEB https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-DOMPURIFY-1016634
- WEB https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
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