CVE-2017-16016 — Cross-site Scripting in Sanitize-html

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting6 documents6 sources
Severity
6.1MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 47.91%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Apostrophecms Sanitize-htmlPunkave Sanitize-htmlHackerone Sanitize-html Node Module
Timeline
PublishedJun 4
Latest updateJan 27

Description

Sanitize-html is a library for scrubbing html input of malicious values. Versions 1.11.1 and below are vulnerable to cross site scripting (XSS) in certain scenarios: If allowed at least one nonTextTags, the result is a potential XSS vulnerability.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages3 packages

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
Cross-Site Scripting in sanitize-html↗2018-11-09
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GHSA
Cross-Site Scripting in sanitize-html↗2018-11-09
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CVEList
CVE-2017-16016: Sanitize-html is a library for scrubbing html input of malicious values↗2018-06-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Debian
CVE-2017-16016: node-sanitize-html - Sanitize-html is a library for scrubbing html input of malicious values. Version...↗2017
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📄Research Papers

1
arXiv
AgenticSCR: An Autonomous Agentic Secure Code Review for Immature Vulnerabilities Detection↗2026-01-27
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