VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2021-23445
This affects the package datatables.net before 1.11.3.
MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 1.98%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.98%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
This affects the package datatables.net before 1.11.3. If an array is passed to the HTML escape entities function it would not have its contents escaped.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.98% probability · 80th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- datatables/datatables.net
- Source
- report@snyk.io
EPSS 2.0% since 26 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://cdn.datatables.net/1.11.3/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/DataTables/Dist-DataTables/commit/59a8d3f8a3c1138ab08704e783bc52bfe88d7c9bPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00018.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-1715371Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1715376Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-DATATABLESNET-1540544Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.datatables.net/1.11.3/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/DataTables/Dist-DataTables/commit/59a8d3f8a3c1138ab08704e783bc52bfe88d7c9bPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00018.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-1715371Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1715376Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-DATATABLESNET-1540544Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.