CVE-2019-9844 — Cross-site Scripting in Simple-markdown

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting5 documents4 sources
Severity
6.1MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 41.80%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Khanacademy Simple-markdownFedoraproject Fedora
Timeline
PublishedApr 9

Description

simple-markdown.js in Khan Academy simple-markdown before 0.4.4 allows XSS via a data: or vbscript: URI.

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 Packages2 packages

Also affects: Fedora 30

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
Cross-Site Scripting in simple-markdown↗2019-04-09
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OSV
Cross-Site Scripting in simple-markdown↗2019-04-09
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-9844 nodejs-simple-markdown: Cross-site script through the data of a vbscript link [fedora-all]↗2019-04-02
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-9844 nodejs-simple-markdown: Cross-site script through the data of a vbscript link↗2019-04-02
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