CVE-2023-22461 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2023-22461

sanitize-svg Filter Bypass Allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Vulnerability Description

The `sanitize-svg` package, a small SVG sanitizer to prevent cross-site scripting attacks, uses a deny-list-pattern to sanitize SVGs to prevent XSS. In doing so, literal `<script>`-tags and on-event handlers were detected in versions prior to 0.4.0. As a result, downstream software that relies on `sanitize-svg` and expects resulting SVGs to be safe, may be vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability was addressed in v0.4.0. There are no known workarounds

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

sanitize-svg
Vulnerable Versions:
< 0.4

Timeline

Official Publish: January 4th, 2023
Last Modified: March 10th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79 CWE-80

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1189 Drive-by Compromise
Initial Access
T1059.007 JavaScript
Execution
T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie
Collection
T1213 Data from Information Repositories
Collection
T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service
Exfiltration
T1491.001 Defacement
Impact
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
Execution
T1552 Unsecured Credentials
Credential Access
T1071 Application Layer Protocol
Command and Control
T1565 Data Manipulation
Impact