CVE-2023-43643 (GCVE-0-2023-43643)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-09 13:31 – Updated: 2024-09-19 13:57
VLAI
Title
mXSS in AntiSamy
Summary
AntiSamy is a library for performing fast, configurable cleansing of HTML coming from untrusted sources. Prior to version 1.7.4, 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 and also allow for certain tags at the same time. As a result, certain crafty inputs can result in elements in comment tags being interpreted as executable when using AntiSamy's sanitized output. This issue has been patched in AntiSamy 1.7.4 and later.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-19 13:15 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7634 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
nahsra antisamy Affected: <= 1.7.3
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