CVE-2023-38500

MEDIUM

TYPO3 HTML Sanitizer <1.5.1-2.1.2 - Auth Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

TYPO3 HTML Sanitizer is an HTML sanitizer, written in PHP, aiming to provide cross-site-scripting-safe markup based on explicitly allowed tags, attributes and values. Starting in version 1.0.0 and prior to versions 1.5.1 and 2.1.2, due to an encoding issue in the serialization layer, malicious markup nested in a `noscript` element was not encoded correctly. `noscript` is disabled in the default configuration, but might have been enabled in custom scenarios. This allows bypassing the cross-site scripting mechanism of TYPO3 HTML Sanitizer. Versions 1.5.1 and 2.1.2 fix the problem.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7
EPSS 0.0037
EPSS Percentile 59.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/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 (2)
typo3/html-sanitizer 1.0.0 - 1.5.1Packagist
typo3/html_sanitizer 1.0.0 - 1.5.1
Published Jul 25, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026