CVE-2023-36823: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
(updated )
Sanitize is an allowlist-based HTML and CSS sanitizer. Using carefully crafted input, an attacker may be able to sneak arbitrary HTML and CSS through Sanitize starting with version 3.0.0 and prior to version 6.0.2 when Sanitize is configured to use the built-in “relaxed” config or when using a custom config that allows style
elements and one or more CSS at-rules. This could result in cross-site scripting or other undesired behavior when the malicious HTML and CSS are rendered in a browser. Sanitize 6.0.2 performs additional escaping of CSS in style
element content, which fixes this issue. Users who are unable to upgrade can prevent this issue by using a Sanitize config that does not allow style
elements, using a Sanitize config that does not allow CSS at-rules, or by manually escaping the character sequence </
as <\/
in style
element content.
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