CVE-2023-38500 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-38500: By-passing Cross-Site Scripting Protection in HTML Sanitizer

Vendor Typo3
Product html-sanitizer
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published July 25, 2023
Last update October 10, 2024

CVSS base score

4.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

TYPO3 HTML Sanitizer is an HTML sanitizer, written in PHP, aiming to provide cross-site-scripting-safe markup based on explicitly allowed tags, attributes and values. Starting in version 1.0.0 and prior to versions 1.5.1 and 2.1.2, due to an encoding issue in the serialization layer, malicious markup nested in a `noscript` element was not encoded correctly. `noscript` is disabled in the default configuration, but might have been enabled in custom scenarios. This allows bypassing the cross-site scripting mechanism of TYPO3 HTML Sanitizer. Versions 1.5.1 and 2.1.2 fix the problem.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 25, 2023 CVE published
October 10, 2024 Record updated