CVE-2025-24981

Parsed HTML anchor links in Markdown provided to parseMarkdown can result in XSS in @nuxtjs/mdc

State
Published
Severity
9.3 Critical
Published
Feb 6, 2025
Updated
Feb 12, 2025
Reserved
Jan 29, 2025

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Description

MDC is a tool to take regular Markdown and write documents interacting deeply with a Vue component. In affected versions unsafe parsing logic of the URL from markdown can lead to arbitrary JavaScript code due to a bypass to the existing guards around the `javascript:` protocol scheme in the URL. The parsing logic implement in `props.ts` maintains a deny-list approach to filtering potential malicious payload. It does so by matching protocol schemes like `javascript:` and others. These security guards can be bypassed by an adversarial that provides JavaScript URLs with HTML entities encoded via hex string. Users who consume this library and perform markdown parsing from unvalidated sources could result in rendering vulnerable XSS anchor links. This vulnerability has been addressed in version 0.13.3 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.3 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

ProductVersions
mdcnuxt-modules
  • < 0.13.3Affected

References

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