CVE-2017-16019
GitBook is a command line tool (and Node.js library) for building beautiful books using GitHub/Git and Markdown (or AsciiDoc). Stored…
- 6.1MediumCVSS base score
- 0.92%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 39% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
GitBook is a command line tool (and Node.js library) for building beautiful books using GitHub/Git and Markdown (or AsciiDoc). Stored Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) is possible in GitBook before 3.2.2 by including code outside of backticks in any ebook. This code will be executed on the online reader.
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)
- 0.92% · top 39% 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 · gitbook node module
- affected <3.2.2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmgitbookGHSA-5h5r-23r4-m87h (opens in a new tab)
References
2
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/159 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook/issues/1609 (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-2020-0788 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-5h5r-23r4-m87h (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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