CVE-2022-36020 MEDIUM

CVE-2022-36020: Bypass of Cross-Site Scripting Protection in typo3/html-sanitizer

Vendor Typo3
Product html-sanitizer
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published September 13, 2022
Last update April 23, 2025

CVSS base score

6.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

Description

The typo3/html-sanitizer package is an HTML sanitizer, written in PHP, aiming to provide XSS-safe markup based on explicitly allowed tags, attributes and values. Due to a parsing issue in the upstream package `masterminds/html5`, malicious markup used in a sequence with special HTML comments cannot be filtered and sanitized. This allows for a bypass of the cross-site scripting mechanism of `typo3/html-sanitizer`. This issue has been addressed in versions 1.0.7 and 2.0.16 of the `typo3/html-sanitizer` package. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Key dates

Disclosure timeline

September 13, 2022 CVE published
April 23, 2025 Record updated