What is CVE-2019-16728?

CVE-2019-16728 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cure53 Dompurify, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-09-24.

How severe is CVE-2019-16728?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2019-16728 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Cure53 Dompurify

CVE-2019-16728

DOMPurify before 2.0.1 allows XSS because of innerHTML mutation XSS (mXSS) for an SVG element or a MATH element, as demonstrated by Chrome and Safari.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.017 (74.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Cure53 Dompurify
Debian Debian_linux — versions 9.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

imjdl/CVE-2019-16278-PoC

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-16728?: CVE-2019-16728 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cure53 Dompurify, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-09-24.
How severe is CVE-2019-16728?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2019-16728 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.