GHSA-3657-q433-mmpx — austintoddj/canvas
MEDIUMGHSA-3657-q433-mmpx is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.4) Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in austintoddj/canvas. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Canvs Canvas Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via title and content fields
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-3657-q433-mmpx plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,333 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
austintoddj/canvasReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Packagist packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
cnvs.io Canvas 3.3.0 has XSS in the title and content fields of a "Posts > Add New" action, and during creation of new tags and users.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | austintoddj/canvas | all versions | No fix |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for austintoddj/canvas, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Remediation status
No patched version of austintoddj/canvas has shipped for GHSA-3657-q433-mmpx yet. Where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range, and apply any maintainer-recommended mitigation.
Mitigate without a patch
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like GHSA-3657-q433-mmpx can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to GHSA-3657-q433-mmpx. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-3657-q433-mmpx in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds GHSA-3657-q433-mmpx across Packagist dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.