CVE-2022-23499

MEDIUM

TYPO3 html_sanitizer < 1.5.0 and 2.0.0-2.0.10 - Cross-Site Scripting via CDATA Section Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

HTML sanitizer is written in PHP, aiming to provide XSS-safe markup based on explicitly allowed tags, attributes and values. In versions prior to 1.5.0 or 2.1.1, malicious markup used in a sequence with special HTML CDATA sections cannot be filtered and sanitized due to a parsing issue in the upstream package masterminds/html5. This allows bypassing the cross-site scripting mechanism of typo3/html-sanitizer. The upstream package masterminds/html5 provides HTML raw text elements (`script`, `style`, `noframes`, `noembed` and `iframe`) as DOMText nodes, which were not processed and sanitized further. None of the mentioned elements were defined in the default builder configuration, that's why only custom behaviors, using one of those tag names, were vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This issue has been fixed in versions 1.5.0 and 2.1.1.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 46.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (3)
typo3/cms 10.0.0 - 10.4.33Packagist
typo3/html-sanitizer 1.0.0 - 1.5.0Packagist
typo3/html_sanitizer 1.0.0 - 1.0.7
Published Dec 13, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026