CVE-2018-1000162

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 18, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Mar 29, 2018

Description

Parsedown version prior to 1.7.0 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in `setMarkupEscaped` for escaping HTML that can result in JavaScript code execution. This attack appears to be exploitable via specially crafted markdown that allows it to side step HTML escaping by breaking AST boundaries. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.7.0 and later.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/Roave/SecurityAdvisories/issues/44#issuecomment-368594409
https://github.com/erusev/parsedown/pull/495

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