CVE-2020-13973
Cross-site scripting in json-sanitizer
6.1
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.47%
Description
OWASP json-sanitizer before 1.2.1 allows XSS. An attacker who controls a substring of the input JSON, and controls another substring adjacent to a SCRIPT element in which the output is embedded as JavaScript, may be able to confuse the HTML parser as to where the SCRIPT element ends, and cause non-script content to be interpreted as JavaScript.
How to fix CVE-2020-13973
To remediate CVE-2020-13973, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.2.1 or later
Is CVE-2020-13973 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.2.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |