SB2021050516 - Cross-site scripting in react-draft-wysiwyg package for npm

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.

1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-31712)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in decorators/Link/index.js. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://github.com/jpuri/react-draft-wysiwyg/pull/1104
• https://github.com/jpuri/react-draft-wysiwyg/issues/1102
• https://github.com/jpuri/react-draft-wysiwyg/commit/d2faeb612b53f10dff048de7dc57e1f4044b5380