Security Fix for Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - huntr.dev #860
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https://huntr.dev/users/alromh87 has fixed the Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability 🔨. alromh87 has been awarded $25 for fixing the vulnerability through the huntr bug bounty program 💵. Think you could fix a vulnerability like this?
Get involved at https://huntr.dev/
Q | A
Version Affected | ALL
Bug Fix | YES
Original Pull Request | 418sec#2
Vulnerability README | https://github.com/418sec/huntr/blob/master/bounties/npm/editor.md/1/README.md
User Comments:
📊 Metadata *
Bounty URL: https://www.huntr.dev/bounties/1-npm-editor.md
⚙️ Description *
filterHTML function has been enhanced to properly handle self closing html tags
💻 Technical Description *
filterHTML uses regExp to filter selectively but previous version won't match properly self closing tags leading to improper filtering, regExp has been updated
When using the 'on*' filter attributes where being loaded to Jquery object causing onload property execution
🐛 Proof of Concept (PoC) *
Insert in editor a self clossing element with event to execute code
git clone https://github.com/pandao/editor.md
cd editor.md
php -S localhost:8080
(No code should be executed with this Filter)
🔥 Proof of Fix (PoF) *
After fix code execution is avoided as specified
👍 User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Editor works properly after fix:
#Refs:
#715
#764
#816
#709
#701
#700