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HTML Injection in shout

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 7, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm shout (npm)

Affected versions

>= 0.44.0, <= 0.49.3

Patched versions

0.50.0

Description

Affected versions of shout do not escape the /topic command in messages, and are therefore vulnerable to cross-site scripting.

Recommendation

Update to version 0.50.0 or later.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 7, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(36th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-16043

GHSA ID

GHSA-26q7-g57v-mxcp

Source code

No known source code
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