GHSA-xgfm-fjx6-62mj

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GHSA-xgfm-fjx6-62mj

Summary: readthedocs-sphinx-search vulnerable to cross-site scripting when including search results from malicious projects

Details: ### Impact This vulnerability could have allowed an attacker to include arbitrary HTML content in search results by having a user search a malicious project. This was due to our search client not correctly escaping all user content from search results. You can find more information in the [advisory published in our readthedocs.org repo](https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs.org/security/advisories/GHSA-qhqx-5j25-rv48). Users of this extension should update to the 0.3.2 version, and trigger a new build. This issue was discovered by a member of our team, and we have seen no signs that this vulnerability was exploited in the wild. ### Patches This issue has been patched in our 0.3.2 version. ### References - https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs-sphinx-search/commit/8c6f6d01e88e72ef32ed0c220b6c19d1e1121c73 ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) ([PGP](https://docs.readthedocs.io/page/security.html#pgp-key))

References: https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs-sphinx-search/security/advisories/GHSA-xgfm-fjx6-62mj, https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs-sphinx-search/commit/8c6f6d01e88e72ef32ed0c220b6c19d1e1121c73, https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs-sphinx-search