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CVE-2017-16016

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-06-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Sanitize-html is a library for scrubbing html input of malicious values. Versions 1.11.1 and below are vulnerable to cross site scripting (XSS) in certain scenarios: If allowed at least one nonTextTags, the result is a potential XSS vulnerability.

Affected products

• HackerOne sanitize-html node module: through 1.11.1

References

• https://github.com/punkave/sanitize-html/commit/5d205a1005ba0df80e21d8c64a15bb3accdb2403
• https://github.com/punkave/sanitize-html/issues/100
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/154
• https://github.com/punkave/sanitize-html/commit/5d205a1005ba0df80e21d8c64a15bb3accdb2403
• https://github.com/punkave/sanitize-html/issues/100
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/154

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