What is GHSA-87mg-h5r3-hw88?

GHSA-87mg-h5r3-hw88 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Cross-Site Scripting in bootbox

Why does GHSA-87mg-h5r3-hw88 have no CVE ID yet?

GitHub Security Advisories published this advisory directly to customers before NVD assigned a CVE ID. This is the embargo-window disclosure pattern — vendors notify customers on day 0; NVD's public record follows days to weeks later.

Which products are affected by GHSA-87mg-h5r3-hw88?

GHSA-87mg-h5r3-hw88 affects 1 product, including: npm/bootbox:\u003c= 5.5.2.

GHSA-87mg-h5r3-hw88MediumDisclosed before NVD

Cross-Site Scripting in bootbox

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 30, 2019

Last Modified

January 9, 2023

📋 Description

All version of bootbox are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting. The package does not sanitize user input in the provided dialog boxes, allowing attackers to inject HTML code and execute arbitrary JavaScript.

Recommendation

Sanitize user input being passed to bootbox or consider using an alternative package.

🎯 Affected products1

npm/bootbox:<= 5.5.2

🔗 References (4)

https://github.com/makeusabrew/bootbox/issues/661
https://hackerone.com/reports/508446
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/882
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-87mg-h5r3-hw88