CVE-2020-7676

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-06-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

angular.js prior to 1.8.0 allows cross site scripting. The regex-based input HTML replacement may turn sanitized code into unsanitized one. Wrapping "<option>" elements in "<select>" ones changes parsing behavior, leading to possibly unsanitizing code.

Affected products

angularjs: before 1.8.0 — fixed in 1.8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: angularjs 1.8.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/angular/angular.js/pull/17028%2C
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r198985c02829ba8285ed4f9b1de54a33b5f31b08bb38ac51fc86961b%40%3Cozone-issues.hadoop.apache.org%3E
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https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ANGULAR-570058

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