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CVE-2017-0931
html-janitor node module suffers from a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability via clean() accepting user-controlled values.
- 6.1MediumCVSS base score
- 1.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 36% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
html-janitor node module suffers from a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability via clean() accepting user-controlled values.
Timeline
ID reserved
By hackerone
- 18 months later
· 18 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 36% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Affected products
HackerOne · html-janitor node module
- affected All versions
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmhtml-janitorGHSA-hfj4-96f7-6r5g (opens in a new tab)
References
2
- https://github.com/guardian/html-janitor/issues/34 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://hackerone.com/reports/308155 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-0755 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hfj4-96f7-6r5g (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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