CVE-2017-16016
Sanitize-html is a library for scrubbing html input of malicious values. Versions 1.11.1 and below are vulnerable to cross site scripting…
- 6.1MediumCVSS base score
- 1.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 29% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By hackerone
- 7 months later
· 7 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 | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Affected products
HackerOne · sanitize-html node module
- affected <=1.11.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmsanitize-htmlGHSA-xc6g-ggrc-qq4r (opens in a new tab)
References
3
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/154 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/punkave/sanitize-html/issues/100 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/punkave/sanitize-html/commit/5d205a1005ba0df80e21d8c64a15bb3accdb2403 (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-2018-0787 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-xc6g-ggrc-qq4r (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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