What is CVE-2023-43643?

CVE-2023-43643 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Antisamy_project Antisamy, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2023-10-09.

How severe is CVE-2023-43643?

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

XSS in Antisamy_project Antisamy

CVE-2023-43643

AntiSamy is a library for performing fast, configurable cleansing of HTML coming from untrusted sources. Prior to version 1.7.4, there is a potential for a mutation XSS (mXSS) vulnerability in AntiSamy caused by flawed parsing of the HTML…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.005 (37.4th 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

Antisamy_project Antisamy
Nahsra Antisamy — versions <= 1.7.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Product, Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-43643?: CVE-2023-43643 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Antisamy_project Antisamy, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2023-10-09.
How severe is CVE-2023-43643?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.