CVE-2022-42967

9.6 criticalEPSS 0.9%

Critical (9.6) in caret caret. EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Caret is vulnerable to an XSS attack when the user opens a crafted Markdown file when preview mode is enabled. This directly leads to client-side code execution.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.6 critical

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

EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 58% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2023-01-11
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

caret:caret

References

https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/caret-xss-rce/
https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/caret-xss-rce/

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