PT-2020-7942 · Unknown · Sanitize-Html

Published 2020-01-23 · Updated 2026-06-04 · CVE-2016-1000237

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: sanitize-html versions prior to 1.4.3

Description: The issue allows an attacker to execute arbitrary Javascript due to the lack of recursive sanitization of input in affected versions of sanitize-html.

Recommendations: Update to version 1.4.3 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-1000237

GHSA-3J7M-HMH3-9JMP

Affected Products

Sanitize-Html

References · 10

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1000237 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-3j7m-hmh3-9jmp · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ROOT-APP-NPM-CVE-2016-1000237 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1000237 · Security Note
• https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/762fbc7bba389f3f789cc291c1eb2b64f60f2caf · Note
• https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/issues/29 · Note
• https://github.com/punkave/sanitize-html/issues/29 · Note
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/distributedweaknessfiling/cvelist/master/2016/1000xxx/CVE-2016-1000237.json · Note
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/135 · Note
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/135 · Note