Skip to content
Fencer Intel
medium 6.1

CVE-2019-25225 json

sanitize-html is vulnerable to XSS through incomprehensive sanitization

published last yr. modified 4mo ago also GHSA-qhxp-v273-g94h , EUVD-2019-19375

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 20%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

`sanitize-html` prior to version 2.0.0-beta is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). The `sanitizeHtml()` function in `index.js` does not sanitize content when using the custom `transformTags` option, which is intended to convert attribute values into text. As a result, malicious input can be transformed into executable code.

Patch / fix

  • npm sanitize-html 2.0.0-beta
  • apostrophecms sanitize-html 2.0.0

Is CVE-2019-25225 in your dependencies? Fencer shows which of your repositories are affected as soon as an advisory lands, and opens the fix as a pull request.

Check with Fencer

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-25225 updated cvss 6.1

sanitize-html: sanitize-html cross site scripting

  • Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes multicluster-engine/console-mce-rhel8, multicluster-engine/console-mce-rhel9 Red Hat Network Observability Operator network-observability/network-observability-console-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/thanos-rhel9, rhacm2/console-rhel9, rhacm2/prometheus-rhel9 Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9, rhdh/rhdh-rhel9-operator Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-console, openshift4/ose-thanos-rhel9, openshift4/ose-console-rhel9, openshift4/ose-prometheus-rhel9, openshift4/ose-monitoring-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/traefik-rhel9, devspaces/dashboard-rhel8, devspaces/dashboard-rhel9, devspaces/configbump-rhel9, devspaces/imagepuller-rhel9, devspaces/devspaces-rhel9-operator, +1 more
    +2 more products
    Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/dex-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel9, openshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/must-gather-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-agent-rhel8, +5 more Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 20% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/Checkmarx/Vulnerabilities-Proofs-of-Concept/tree/main/2019/CVE-2019-25225 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm sanitize-html
<2.0.0-beta
2.0.0-beta

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.