Security Advisory

CVE-2018-1000162

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-04-18 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 12:33:49
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.