CVE-2017-16016
unknown
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
—
Description
Sanitize-html is a library for scrubbing html input of malicious values. Versions 1.11.1 and below are vulnerable to cross site scripting (XSS) in certain scenarios: If allowed at least one nonTextTags, the result is a potential XSS vulnerability.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | sanitize-html | <1.11.4 | 1.11.4 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16016
- https://github.com/punkave/sanitize-html/issues/100
- https://github.com/punkave/sanitize-html/commit/5d205a1005ba0df80e21d8c64a15bb3accdb2403
- https://github.com/punkave/sanitize-html/commit/5d205a1005ba0df80e21d8c64a15bb3accdb2403)))
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xc6g-ggrc-qq4r
- https://npmjs.com/package/sanitize-html#discarding-the-entire-contents-of-a-disallowed-tag
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/154
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16016
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.