CVE-2022-36020

Bypass of Cross-Site Scripting Protection in typo3/html-sanitizer

State
Published
Severity
6.1 Medium
Published
Sep 13, 2022
Updated
Apr 23, 2025
Reserved
Jul 15, 2022

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Description

The typo3/html-sanitizer package is an HTML sanitizer, written in PHP, aiming to provide XSS-safe markup based on explicitly allowed tags, attributes and values. Due to a parsing issue in the upstream package `masterminds/html5`, malicious markup used in a sequence with special HTML comments cannot be filtered and sanitized. This allows for a bypass of the cross-site scripting mechanism of `typo3/html-sanitizer`. This issue has been addressed in versions 1.0.7 and 2.0.16 of the `typo3/html-sanitizer` package. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
html-sanitizerTYPO3
  • >= 1.0.0, < 1.0.7Affected
  • >= 2.0.0, < 2.0.16Affected

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