GHSA-cx3j-qqxj-9597

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cx3j-qqxj-9597

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/08/GHSA-cx3j-qqxj-9597/GHSA-cx3j-qqxj-9597.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-cx3j-qqxj-9597

Aliases

CVE-2023-3481

Published

2023-08-11T18:57:53Z

Modified

2026-05-04T08:46:01.804635790Z

Severity

6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Critters Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability

Details

Impact

Critters version 0.0.17-0.0.19 have an issue when parsing the HTML which leads to a potential cross-site scripting (XSS) bug.

Patches

The bug has been fixed in v0.0.20.

Workarounds

Upgrading Critters version to >0.0.20 is the easiest fix. This is a non breaking version upgrade so we recommend all users to use v0.0.20.

Database specific

{
    "github_reviewed_at": "2023-08-11T18:57:53Z",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "nvd_published_at": "2023-08-21T11:15:07Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-116",
        "CWE-79",
        "CWE-80"
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

npm / critters

Package

Name: critters; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:npm/critters

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0.0.17

Fixed

0.0.20

Database specific

last_known_affected_version_range

"<= 0.0.19"

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/08/GHSA-cx3j-qqxj-9597/GHSA-cx3j-qqxj-9597.json"