VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-45801

CVSS score7.3 HIGH
EPSS probability0.89%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-09-16
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Description

DOMPurify is a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. It has been discovered that malicious HTML using special nesting techniques can bypass the depth checking added to DOMPurify in recent releases. It was also possible to use Prototype Pollution to weaken the depth check. This renders dompurify unable to avoid cross site scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.5.4 and 3.1.3 of DOMPurify. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-1333
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-1321

Primary references