{"id":"CVE-2016-1000227","aliases":["GHSA-v2jq-9475-r5g8"],"status":"published","title":"Cross-Site Scripting in bootstrap-tagsinput","description":"All versions of `bootstrap-tagsinput` are vulnerable to cross-site scripting when user input is passed into the `itemTitle` parameter unmodified, as the package fails to properly sanitize or encode user input for that parameter.\n\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nThis package is not actively maintained, and has not seen an update since 2015. \n\nBecause of this, the simplest mitigation is to avoid using the `itemTitle` parameter. With over 200 open issues and over 100 open pull requests as of 2/2018, it seems unlikely that the author has any intention of maintaining the module. If avoiding the use of `itemTitle` indefinitely is acceptable, this is a workable solution. If not, the best available mitigation is to use a fork of the module that is actively maintained and provides similar functionality. There are [many such forks to choose from available on github.](https://github.com/bootstrap-tagsinput/bootstrap-tagsinput/network/members).","facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2020-09-01T15:29:51Z","modified":"2023-11-08T03:58:07Z","affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"npm","package":"bootstrap-tagsinput","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"0.8.0"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"npm","package":"bootstrap-tagsinput","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"0.8.0"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/bootstrap-tagsinput/bootstrap-tagsinput/issues/501","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/124","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1000227","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v2jq-9475-r5g8"},{"url":"https://github.com/bootstrap-tagsinput","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-v2jq-9475-r5g8","title":"Cross-Site Scripting in bootstrap-tagsinput","description":"All versions of `bootstrap-tagsinput` are vulnerable to cross-site scripting when user input is passed into the `itemTitle` parameter unmodified, as the package fails to properly sanitize or encode user input for that parameter.\n\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nThis package is not actively maintained, and has not seen an update since 2015. \n\nBecause of this, the simplest mitigation is to avoid using the `itemTitle` parameter. With over 200 open issues and over 100 open pull requests as of 2/2018, it seems unlikely that the author has any intention of maintaining the module. If avoiding the use of `itemTitle` indefinitely is acceptable, this is a workable solution. If not, the best available mitigation is to use a fork of the module that is actively maintained and provides similar functionality. There are [many such forks to choose from available on github.](https://github.com/bootstrap-tagsinput/bootstrap-tagsinput/network/members).","status":"published","published":"2020-09-01T15:29:51Z","modified":"2023-01-09T05:03:33Z","cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:36:05.705235Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-v2jq-9475-r5g8","title":"Cross-Site Scripting in bootstrap-tagsinput","description":"All versions of `bootstrap-tagsinput` are vulnerable to cross-site scripting when user input is passed into the `itemTitle` parameter unmodified, as the package fails to properly sanitize or encode user input for that parameter.\n\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nThis package is not actively maintained, and has not seen an update since 2015. \n\nBecause of this, the simplest mitigation is to avoid using the `itemTitle` parameter. With over 200 open issues and over 100 open pull requests as of 2/2018, it seems unlikely that the author has any intention of maintaining the module. If avoiding the use of `itemTitle` indefinitely is acceptable, this is a workable solution. If not, the best available mitigation is to use a fork of the module that is actively maintained and provides similar functionality. There are [many such forks to choose from available on github.](https://github.com/bootstrap-tagsinput/bootstrap-tagsinput/network/members).","status":"published","published":"2020-09-01T15:29:51Z","modified":"2023-11-08T03:58:07.600553Z","cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:56.639206Z"}]}}