CVE-2017-0928

mediumpriority · track · 24EPSS 0.010 · 63 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.02% (63rd) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

html-janitor node module suffers from an External Control of Critical State Data vulnerability via user-control of the '_sanitized' variable causing sanitization to be bypassed.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.06.1mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 2.7

v3.06.1mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.05.6mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-642USprimaryCWE-547USCWE-642US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

HackerOne html-janitor node module≤ All versionsenisa_euvdEU
theguardian html-janitor= 2.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:theguardian:html-janitor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
npm html-janitorall versionsosvUSpkg:npm/html-janitor

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-fx46-whrj-73v5Bypassing Sanitization using DOM clobbering in html-janitor2018-07-24ghsa · osvUS
All versions of `html-janitor` are vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS). Arbitrary HTML can pass the sanitization process, which can be unexpected and dangerous (XSS) in case user-controlled input is passed to the clean function." ## Recommendation Upgrade to version 2.0.4 or later.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-06-04modified 2026-06-17

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references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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