{"id":"CVE-2022-23499","aliases":["EUVD-2022-7652","GHSA-hvwx-qh2h-xcfj"],"status":"published","title":"Cross-Site Scripting Protection bypass in HTML Sanitizer","description":"HTML sanitizer is written in PHP, aiming to provide XSS-safe markup based on explicitly allowed tags, attributes and values. In versions prior to 1.5.0 or 2.1.1,  malicious markup used in a sequence with special HTML CDATA sections cannot be filtered and sanitized due to a parsing issue in the upstream package masterminds/html5. This allows bypassing the cross-site scripting mechanism of typo3/html-sanitizer. The upstream package masterminds/html5 provides HTML raw text elements (`script`, `style`, `noframes`, `noembed` and `iframe`) as DOMText nodes, which were not processed and sanitized further. None of the mentioned elements were defined in the default builder configuration, that's why only custom behaviors, using one of those tag names, were vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This issue has been fixed in versions 1.5.0 and 2.1.1.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.00468,"percentile":0.40797,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2022-12-13T16:59:12Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:31:07Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"Packagist","package":"typo3/html-sanitizer","fixed_in":["1.5.0","2.1.1"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]},{"ecosystem":"Packagist","package":"typo3/cms","fixed_in":["10.4.33","11.5.20","12.1.1"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"Packagist","package":"typo3/html-sanitizer","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"1.0.0"},{"fixed":"1.5.0"}]}]},{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"Packagist","package":"typo3/html-sanitizer","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"2.0.0"},{"fixed":"2.1.1"}]}]},{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"Packagist","package":"typo3/cms","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"10.0.0"},{"fixed":"10.4.33"}]}]},{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"Packagist","package":"typo3/cms","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"11.0.0"},{"fixed":"11.5.20"}]}]},{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"Packagist","package":"typo3/cms","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"12.0.0"},{"fixed":"12.1.1"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Packagist","package":"typo3/html-sanitizer","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"1.0.0"},{"fixed":"1.5.0"}]}],"versions":["v1.0.0","v1.0.1","v1.0.2","v1.0.3","v1.0.4","v1.0.5","v1.0.6","v1.0.7"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Packagist","package":"typo3/html-sanitizer","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"2.0.0"},{"fixed":"2.1.1"}]}],"versions":["v2.0.0","v2.0.1","v2.0.10","v2.0.11","v2.0.12","v2.0.13","v2.0.14","v2.0.15","v2.0.16","v2.0.2","v2.0.3","v2.0.4","v2.0.5","v2.0.6","v2.0.7","v2.0.8","v2.0.9","v2.1.0"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Packagist","package":"typo3/cms","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"10.0.0"},{"fixed":"10.4.33"}]}],"versions":["v10.0.0","v10.1.0","v10.2.0","v10.2.1","v10.2.2","v10.3.0","v10.4.0","v10.4.1","v10.4.10","v10.4.11","v10.4.12","v10.4.13","v10.4.14","v10.4.15","v10.4.16","v10.4.17","v10.4.18","v10.4.19","v10.4.2","v10.4.20","v10.4.21","v10.4.22","v10.4.23","v10.4.24","v10.4.25","v10.4.26","v10.4.27","v10.4.28","v10.4.29","v10.4.3","v10.4.30","v10.4.31","v10.4.32","v10.4.4","v10.4.5","v10.4.6","v10.4.7","v10.4.8","v10.4.9"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Packagist","package":"typo3/cms","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"11.0.0"},{"fixed":"11.5.20"}]}],"versions":["v11.0.0","v11.1.0","v11.1.1","v11.2.0","v11.3.0","v11.3.1","v11.3.2","v11.3.3","v11.4.0","v11.5.0","v11.5.1","v11.5.10","v11.5.11","v11.5.12","v11.5.13","v11.5.14","v11.5.15","v11.5.16","v11.5.17","v11.5.18","v11.5.19","v11.5.2","v11.5.3","v11.5.4","v11.5.5","v11.5.6","v11.5.7","v11.5.8","v11.5.9"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Packagist","package":"typo3/cms","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"12.0.0"},{"fixed":"12.1.1"}]}],"versions":["v12.0.0","v12.1.0"]}],"products":[{"vendor":"typo3","product":"html-sanitizer"},{"vendor":"typo3","product":"html_sanitizer"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/TYPO3/html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-hvwx-qh2h-xcfj","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred","Third Party Advisory","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/TYPO3/html-sanitizer/pull/105","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/TYPO3/html-sanitizer/pull/106","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/TYPO3/html-sanitizer/releases/tag/v1.5.0","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/TYPO3/html-sanitizer/releases/tag/v2.1.1","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/typo3/cms/CVE-2022-23499.yaml","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2022-017","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23499","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hvwx-qh2h-xcfj"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/23xxx/CVE-2022-23499.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/TYPO3/html-sanitizer","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2022-23499","title":"Cross-Site Scripting Protection bypass in HTML Sanitizer","description":"HTML sanitizer is written in PHP, aiming to provide XSS-safe markup based on explicitly allowed tags, attributes and values. In versions prior to 1.5.0 or 2.1.1,  malicious markup used in a sequence with special HTML CDATA sections cannot be filtered and sanitized due to a parsing issue in the upstream package masterminds/html5. This allows bypassing the cross-site scripting mechanism of typo3/html-sanitizer. The upstream package masterminds/html5 provides HTML raw text elements (`script`, `style`, `noframes`, `noembed` and `iframe`) as DOMText nodes, which were not processed and sanitized further. None of the mentioned elements were defined in the default builder configuration, that's why only custom behaviors, using one of those tag names, were vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This issue has been fixed in versions 1.5.0 and 2.1.1.","status":"published","published":"2022-12-13T20:29:41.025Z","modified":"2025-04-23T16:28:29.503Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:34:29.842547Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2022-7652","description":"HTML sanitizer is written in PHP, aiming to provide XSS-safe markup based on explicitly allowed tags, attributes and values. In versions prior to 1.5.0 or 2.1.1,  malicious markup used in a sequence with special HTML CDATA sections cannot be filtered and sanitized due to a parsing issue in the upstream package masterminds/html5. This allows bypassing the cross-site scripting mechanism of typo3/html-sanitizer. The upstream package masterminds/html5 provides HTML raw text elements (`script`, `style`, `noframes`, `noembed` and `iframe`) as DOMText nodes, which were not processed and sanitized further. None of the mentioned elements were defined in the default builder configuration, that's why only custom behaviors, using one of those tag names, were vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This issue has been fixed in versions 1.5.0 and 2.1.1.","status":"published","published":"2022-12-13T20:29:41Z","modified":"2025-04-23T16:28:29Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T20:52:12.74685Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-hvwx-qh2h-xcfj","title":"TYPO3 HTML Sanitizer vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting","description":"### Problem\nDue to a parsing issue in the upstream package [`masterminds/html5`](https://packagist.org/packages/masterminds/html5), malicious markup used in a sequence with special HTML CDATA sections cannot be filtered and sanitized. This allows bypassing the cross-site scripting mechanism of [`typo3/html-sanitizer`](https://packagist.org/packages/typo3/html-sanitizer).\n\nBesides that, the upstream package `masterminds/html5` provides HTML raw text elements (`script`, `style`, `noframes`, `noembed` and `iframe`) as DOMText nodes, which were not processed and sanitized further. None of the mentioned elements were defined in the default builder configuration, that's why only custom behaviors, using one of those tag names, were vulnerable to cross-site scripting.\n\n### Solution\nUpdate to `typo3/html-sanitizer` versions 1.5.0 or 2.1.1 that fix the problem described.\n","status":"published","published":"2022-12-13T16:59:12Z","modified":"2023-01-29T05:05:38Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:36:25.835323Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2022-23499","description":"HTML sanitizer is written in PHP, aiming to provide XSS-safe markup based on explicitly allowed tags, attributes and values. In versions prior to 1.5.0 or 2.1.1,  malicious markup used in a sequence with special HTML CDATA sections cannot be filtered and sanitized due to a parsing issue in the upstream package masterminds/html5. This allows bypassing the cross-site scripting mechanism of typo3/html-sanitizer. The upstream package masterminds/html5 provides HTML raw text elements (`script`, `style`, `noframes`, `noembed` and `iframe`) as DOMText nodes, which were not processed and sanitized further. None of the mentioned elements were defined in the default builder configuration, that's why only custom behaviors, using one of those tag names, were vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This issue has been fixed in versions 1.5.0 and 2.1.1.","status":"published","published":"2022-12-13T21:15:11.207Z","modified":"2026-06-17T04:30:14.683Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:07:33.649381Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2022-23499","title":"Cross-Site Scripting Protection bypass in HTML Sanitizer","description":"HTML sanitizer is written in PHP, aiming to provide XSS-safe markup based on explicitly allowed tags, attributes and values. In versions prior to 1.5.0 or 2.1.1,  malicious markup used in a sequence with special HTML CDATA sections cannot be filtered and sanitized due to a parsing issue in the upstream package masterminds/html5. This allows bypassing the cross-site scripting mechanism of typo3/html-sanitizer. The upstream package masterminds/html5 provides HTML raw text elements (`script`, `style`, `noframes`, `noembed` and `iframe`) as DOMText nodes, which were not processed and sanitized further. None of the mentioned elements were defined in the default builder configuration, that's why only custom behaviors, using one of those tag names, were vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This issue has been fixed in versions 1.5.0 and 2.1.1.","status":"published","published":"2022-12-13T20:29:41.025Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:31:07.192044866Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:24.061177Z"},{"id":"GHSA-hvwx-qh2h-xcfj","title":"TYPO3 HTML Sanitizer vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting","description":"### Problem\nDue to a parsing issue in the upstream package [`masterminds/html5`](https://packagist.org/packages/masterminds/html5), malicious markup used in a sequence with special HTML CDATA sections cannot be filtered and sanitized. This allows bypassing the cross-site scripting mechanism of [`typo3/html-sanitizer`](https://packagist.org/packages/typo3/html-sanitizer).\n\nBesides that, the upstream package `masterminds/html5` provides HTML raw text elements (`script`, `style`, `noframes`, `noembed` and `iframe`) as DOMText nodes, which were not processed and sanitized further. None of the mentioned elements were defined in the default builder configuration, that's why only custom behaviors, using one of those tag names, were vulnerable to cross-site scripting.\n\n### Solution\nUpdate to `typo3/html-sanitizer` versions 1.5.0 or 2.1.1 that fix the problem described.\n","status":"published","published":"2022-12-13T16:59:12Z","modified":"2023-11-08T04:08:19.452526Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:49.621585Z"}]}}