GHSA-p3rp-vmj9-gv6v

Incorrect sanitisation function leads to `XSS` in mermaid

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2021-43861

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	mermaid	< 8.13.8	8.13.8

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

### Impact Malicious diagrams can contain javascript code that can be run at diagram readers machines. ### Patches The users should upgrade to version 8.13.8 ### Workarounds You need to upgrade in order to avoid this issue.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/security/advisories/GHSA-p3rp-vmj9-gv6v web
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-43861 advisory
https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/commit/066b7a0d0bda274d94a2f2d21e4323dab5776d83 web
https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid package
https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/releases/tag/8.13.8 web