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GHSA-fx46-whrj-73v5

MEDIUM

Bypassing Sanitization using DOM clobbering in html-janitor

Also known asCVE-2017-0928
Published
Jul 24, 2018
Updated
Nov 8, 2023
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
None yet
Exploits
None indexed

Blast Radius

1 pkg affected

Weekly download volume for affected packages — a proxy for how broadly this vulnerability is deployed.

html-janitornpm
52Kdownloads / week

Description

All versions of html-janitor are vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS).

Arbitrary HTML can pass the sanitization process, which can be unexpected and dangerous (XSS) in case user-controlled input is passed to the clean function."

Recommendation

Upgrade to version 2.0.4 or later.

Affected Packages

1 total
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
📦npmhtml-janitorall versionsNo fix

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency
  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for html-janitor. O3's reachability analysis confirms whether the vulnerable code path is actually invoked in your application, so you act on real exposure instead of every transitive match.

  2. Remediation status

    No patched version of html-janitor has shipped for GHSA-fx46-whrj-73v5 yet. Where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range, and apply any maintainer-recommended mitigation.

  3. 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.

  4. How O3 protects you

    O3 pinpoints whether GHSA-fx46-whrj-73v5 is reachable in your code and exactly where to fix it, then blocks exploitation in production at runtime until the patched version is deployed.

Tailored to GHSA-fx46-whrj-73v5. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.

Frequently Asked Questions

All versions of `html-janitor` are vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS). Arbitrary HTML can pass the sanitization process, which can be unexpected and dangerous (XSS) in case user-controlled input is passed to the clean function." ## Recommendation Upgrade to version 2.0.4 or later.
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

Is GHSA-fx46-whrj-73v5 in your dependencies?

O3 detects GHSA-fx46-whrj-73v5 across npm dependencies and uses function-level reachability to confirm whether the vulnerable code path is actually reachable — not just present. No false positives.