CVE-2017-16016

mediumpriority · track · 24EPSS 0.013 · 71 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.34% (71st) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Sanitize-html is a library for scrubbing html input of malicious values. Versions 1.11.1 and below are vulnerable to cross site scripting (XSS) in certain scenarios: If allowed at least one nonTextTags, the result is a potential XSS vulnerability.

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

v3.05.6mediumCVSS: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-79USprimaryCWE-79US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

HackerOne sanitize-html node module≤ ≤1.11.1enisa_euvdEU
punkave sanitize-html≤ 1.11.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:punkave:sanitize-html:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
npm sanitize-html< 1.11.4osvUSpkg:npm/sanitize-html

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-xc6g-ggrc-qq4rCross-Site Scripting in sanitize-html2018-11-09ghsa · osvUS
Affected versions of `sanitize-html` are vulnerable to cross-site scripting when allowedTags includes at least one `nonTextTag`. ## Proof of Concept ```js var sanitizeHtml = require('sanitize-html'); var dirty = '!<textarea></textarea><svg/onload=prompt`xs`></textarea>!'; var clean = sanitizeHtml(dirty, { allowedTags: [ 'textarea' ] }); console.log(clean); // !<textarea></textarea><svg/onload=prompt`xs`></textarea>! ``` ## Recommendation Update to version 1.11.4 or later.

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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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