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Severity
5.4
Code Injection, XSS
AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Prism (aka PrismJS) through 1.29.0 allows DOM Clobbering (with resultant XSS for untrusted input that contains HTML but does not directly contain JavaScript), because document.currentScript lookup can be shadowed by attacker-injected HTML elements.

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Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
XSS
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

A Cross-site scripting attack was found in Prism. The command-line plugin did not properly escape its output. This issue leads to the input text being inserted into the Document Object Model (DOM) as HTML code, which can be exploited by an attacker.

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First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Insufficient Regular Expression Complexity in prismjs leads to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this flaw to cause an application to consume an excess amount of CPU by providing a crafted HTML comment as input. This can result in a denial of service attack.

1 / 3
First published (updated )
Severity
7.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Prism is a syntax highlighting library. Some languages before 1.24.0 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). When Prism is used to highlight untrusted (user-given) text, an attacker can craft a string that will take a very very long time to highlight. This problem has been fixed in Prism v1.24. As a workaround, do not use ASCIIDoc or ERB to highlight untrusted text. Other languages are not affected and can be used to highlight untrusted text.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The package prismjs before 1.23.0 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the prism-asciidoc, prism-rest, prism-tap and prism-eiffel components.

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First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
XSS
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L

Prism is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting. The easing preview of the Previewers plugin has an XSS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in Safari and Internet Explorer. This impacts all Safari and Internet Explorer users of Prism >=v1.1.0 that use the Previewers plugin (>=v1.10.0) or the Previewer: Easing plugin (v1.1.0 to v1.9.0). This problem is fixed in version 1.21.0. To workaround the issue without upgrading, disable the easing preview on all impacted code blocks. You need Prism v1.10.0 or newer to apply this workaround.

First published (updated )

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