PT-2015-5245 · Marked · Marked

Albertshaw · Published 2015-01-27 · Updated 2017-10-24 · CVE-2015-1370

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions marked versions 0.3.2 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a vbscript tag in a link. This vulnerability is present even when sanitize:true is set. The attack can be conducted using a link with a vbscript tag, such as [xss link](vbscript:alert(1)), which results in the creation of an <a> tag with the vbscript link.

Recommendations Update to version 0.3.3 or later. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of vbscript tags in links until the issue is resolved.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-1370

GHSA-CFJH-P3G4-3Q2F

Affected Products

Marked

References · 17

• 🔥 https://github.com/chjj/marked/issues/492 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/marked_vbscript_injection · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-1370 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1370 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1370 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1370 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1370 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1370 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-cfjh-p3g4-3q2f · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1370 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/markedjs/marked · Note
• https://github.com/markedjs/marked/commit/fc372d1c6293267722e33f2719d57cebd67b3da1 · Note
• https://github.com/markedjs/marked/issues/492 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/23/2 · Note
• ❌ https://github.com/evilpacket/marked/commit/3c191144939107c45a7fa11ab6cb88be6694a1ba · Note, Deleted