CVE-2024-23635CWE-79

AntiSamy malicious input can provoke XSS when preserving comments

Medium · published February 2, 2024

CVSS v3.1
6.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
29.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

AntiSamy is a library for performing fast, configurable cleansing of HTML coming from untrusted sources. Prior to 1.7.5, there is a potential for a mutation XSS (mXSS) vulnerability in AntiSamy caused by flawed parsing of the HTML being sanitized. To be subject to this vulnerability the `preserveComments` directive must be enabled in your policy file. As a result, certain crafty inputs can result in elements in comment tags being interpreted as executable when using AntiSamy's sanitized output. Patched in AntiSamy 1.7.5 and later.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00368 · 29.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2024-02-02T16:32Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 FEB 16:32Z
    AntiSamy malicious input can provoke XSS when preserving comments
    cvelistv5