CVE-2017-16016

MediumCVSS 6.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Sanitize-html is a library for scrubbing html input of malicious values. Versions 1.11.1 and below are vulnerable to cross site scripting (XSS) in certain scenarios: If allowed at least one nonTextTags, the result is a potential XSS vulnerability.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 6.1/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
HackerOne	sanitize-html node module	<=1.11.1

References

https://github.com/punkave/sanitize-html/commit/5d205a1005ba0df80e21d8c64a15bb3accdb2403Patch
https://github.com/punkave/sanitize-html/issues/100Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/154Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/punkave/sanitize-html/commit/5d205a1005ba0df80e21d8c64a15bb3accdb2403Patch
https://github.com/punkave/sanitize-html/issues/100Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/154Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jun 4, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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