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1 vulnerability by careteditor
CVE-2022-42967 (GCVE-0-2022-42967)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-11 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-08 14:34
VLAI?
Summary
Caret is vulnerable to an XSS attack when the user opens a crafted Markdown file when preview mode is enabled. This directly leads to client-side code execution.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| careteditor | caret |
Affected:
0 , < *
(custom)
|
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