CVE-2018-1000162 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2018-1000162

Parsedown version prior to 1.7.0 contains a Cross Site Scripting...

Vulnerability Description

Parsedown version prior to 1.7.0 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in `setMarkupEscaped` for escaping HTML that can result in JavaScript code execution. This attack appears to be exploitable via specially crafted markdown that allows it to side step HTML escaping by breaking AST boundaries. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.7.0 and later.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

parsedown
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: April 18th, 2018
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.