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Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CVE-2024-53382

Medium
4.9/10

Summary

Prism (aka PrismJS) allows DOM Clobbering (with resultant XSS for untrusted input that contains HTML but does not directly contain JavaScript), because `document.currentScript` lookup can be shadowed by attacker-injected HTML elements. This issue affects prismjs versions prior to 1.30.0.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-94 - Code Injection

Code injection is a type of vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability fully compromises the machine and can cause a wide variety of security issues, such as unauthorized access to sensitive information, manipulation of data, denial of service attacks etc. Code injection is different from command injection in the fact that it is limited by the functionality of the injected language (e.g. PHP), as opposed to command injection, which leverages existing code to execute commands, usually within the context of a shell.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published