CVE-2021-23899

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    CVE-2021-23899

    Published: 13 Jan 2021Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: OWASP json-sanitizer before 1.2.2 may emit closing SCRIPT tags and CDATA section delimiters for crafted input. This allows an attacker to inject arbitrary HTML or XML into embedding documents.

    References: https://groups.google.com/g/json-sanitizer-support/c/dAW1AeNMoA0, https://github.com/OWASP/json-sanitizer/commit/a37f594f7378a1c76b3283e0dab9e1ab1dc0247e, https://github.com/OWASP/json-sanitizer/compare/v1.2.1...v1.2.2

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -c999c7f93096f927273c87bf439d7a992e3a39dc

    Affected versions

    v1.2.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
    None
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    High
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