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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2023-23630

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

Eta is an embedded JS templating engine that works inside Node, Deno, and the browser. XSS attack - anyone using the Express API is impacted. The problem has been resolved. The versions prior to 2.0.0 are affected. As a workaround, don't pass user supplied things directly to "res.render".This has the same fix as CVE-2022-25967.

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CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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