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🛡️ GHSA-4mvm-xh8j-fv27 — govuk-tech-docs (CVE-2024-22048)

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Duplicate Advisory: govuk_tech_docs vulnerable to unescaped HTML on search results page

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-x2xw-hw8g-6773. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

versions from 2.0.2 to before 3.3.1 are vulnerable to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Malicious JavaScript may be executed in the user's browser if a malicious search result is displayed on the search page.

Weakness class

GHSA-4mvm-xh8j-fv27 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

GHSA-4mvm-xh8j-fv27 is recorded against 1 package.

  • govuk-tech-docs (from 2.0.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 4 January 2024 and last revised on 7 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
vulncheck.com (Web)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-01-04
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-12-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
govuk-tech-docs 2.0.2 —

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