CVE-2021-39199

CRITICAL

Remark-html < 13.0.2 - XSS

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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, 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