VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-16016
Sanitize-html is a library for scrubbing html input of malicious values.
MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 1.34%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.34%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.34% probability · 71th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- punkave/sanitize-html
- Source
- support@hackerone.com
EPSS 1.3% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
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
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.