By-passing Cross-Site Scripting Protection in HTML Sanitizer
CVE-2023-38500

4.7MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Typo3

Status
Html-sanitizer
Vendor
CVE Published:
25 July 2023

What is CVE-2023-38500?

TYPO3 HTML Sanitizer is an HTML sanitizer, written in PHP, aiming to provide cross-site-scripting-safe markup based on explicitly allowed tags, attributes and values. Starting in version 1.0.0 and prior to versions 1.5.1 and 2.1.2, due to an encoding issue in the serialization layer, malicious markup nested in a noscript element was not encoded correctly. noscript is disabled in the default configuration, but might have been enabled in custom scenarios. This allows bypassing the cross-site scripting mechanism of TYPO3 HTML Sanitizer. Versions 1.5.1 and 2.1.2 fix the problem.

Affected Version(s)

html-sanitizer >= 1.0.0, < 1.5.1 < 1.0.0, 1.5.1

html-sanitizer >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.2 < 2.0.0, 2.1.2

References

https://github.com/TYPO3/html-sanitizer/security/advisori...
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https://github.com/TYPO3/html-sanitizer/commit/e3026f589f...
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https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2023-002
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.7
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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