CVE-2014-125128

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Publication date:

08/09/2025

Last modified:

08/09/2025

Description

&#39;sanitize-html&#39; prior to version 1.0.3 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). The function &#39;naughtyHref&#39; doesn&#39;t properly validate the hyperreference (`href`) attribute in anchor tags (``), allowing bypasses that contain different casings, whitespace characters, or hexadecimal encodings.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.10 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

6.10

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://github.com/Checkmarx/Vulnerabilities-Proofs-of-Concept/tree/main/2014/CVE-2014-125128
https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/423b90e06e1e85245eccedaabeb3a82840c6cd86
https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/889d4ec968e175f1905b2eb9d33f1fa89217cb02
https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/issues/1