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GHSA-q77q-vx4q-xx6q

Cross-site Scripting in org.owasp.esapi:esapi

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2022-24891

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Maven org.owasp.esapi:esapi < 2.3.0.0 2.3.0.0

Details

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

### Impact There is a potential for an XSS vulnerability in ESAPI caused by a incorrect regular expression for "onsiteURL" in the **antisamy-esapi.xml** configuration file that can cause URLs with the "javascript:" scheme to NOT be sanitized. See the reference below for full details. ### Patches Patched in ESAPI 2.3.0.0 and later. See important remediation details in the reference given below. ### Workarounds Manually edit your **antisamy-esapi.xml** configuration files to change the "onsiteURL" regular expression as per remediation instructions in the reference below. ### References [Security Bulletin 8](https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy/blob/develop/documentation/ESAPI-security-bulletin8.pdf) ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Email one of the project co-leaders. See email addresses listed on the [OWASP ESAPI wiki](https://owasp.org/www-project-enterprise-security-api/) page, under "Leaders". * Send email to one of the two ESAPI related Google Groups listed under [Where to Find More Information on ESAPI](https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy#where-to-find-more-information-on-esapi) on our [README.md](https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy#readme) page.

References

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