CVSS 3.1
6.1 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NCVE-2023-22461
Medium (6.1) in sanitize-svg project sanitize-svg. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in @mattkrick/sanitize-svg 0.4.0.
The `sanitize-svg` package, a small SVG sanitizer to prevent cross-site scripting attacks, uses a deny-list-pattern to sanitize SVGs to prevent XSS. In doing so, literal `<script>`-tags and on-event handlers were detected in versions prior to 0.4.0. As a result, downstream software that relies on `sanitize-svg` and expects resulting SVGs to be safe, may be vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability was addressed in v0.4.0. There are no known workarounds
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 48% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
- CWEs
- CWE-79, CWE-80
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- sanitize-svg_project:sanitize-svg
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-h857-2g56-468g | npm | @mattkrick/sanitize-svg | <0.4.0 | 0.4.0 |
References
- https://github.com/mattkrick/sanitize-svg/commit/b107e453ede7b58adcccae74a3e474c012eec85d
- https://github.com/mattkrick/sanitize-svg/security/advisories/GHSA-h857-2g56-468g
- https://github.com/mattkrick/sanitize-svg/commit/b107e453ede7b58adcccae74a3e474c012eec85d
- https://github.com/mattkrick/sanitize-svg/security/advisories/GHSA-h857-2g56-468g