Description
remark-html is an open source nodejs library which compiles Markdown to HTML. In affected versions the documentation of remark-html has mentioned that it was safe by default. In practice the default was never safe and had to be opted into. That is, user input was not sanitized. This means arbitrary HTML can be passed through leading to potential XSS attacks. The problem has been patched in 13.0.2 and 14.0.1: `remark-html` is now safe by default, and the implementation matches the documentation. On older affected versions, pass `sanitize: true` if you cannot update.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-html/security/advisories/GHSA-9q5w-79cv-947m
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-html/commit/b75c9dde582ad87ba498e369c033dc8a350478c1
Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-html/releases/tag/14.0.1
Product, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.npmjs.com/package/remark-html
Scores
CVSS v3
10.0
EPSS
0.0033
EPSS Percentile
55.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-79
Status
published
Products (2)
npm/remark-html
0 - 13.0.2npm
remark/remark-html
< 13.0.2
Published
Sep 07, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026