CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe vulnerability affects the Defuddle tool in Java, specifically in versions prior to 0.19.1, where site extractors improperly handle HTML content by failing to escape context-appropriate values. This flaw allows attackers to inject malicious JavaScript or event-handler attributes into the rendered HTML, potentially leading to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Organizations using affected versions should prioritize upgrading to 0.19.1 to mitigate the risk of exploitation.
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Original NVD Description
Defuddle cleans up HTML pages. Prior to 0.19.1, site extractors interpolate page-derived image alt and src values, og:image values, and video descriptions into HTML strings without context-appropriate escaping, and buildExtractorResponse() returns this contentHtml without the main pipeline's DOM-based sanitization. The affected paths include src/extractors/x-article.ts, src/extractors/substack.ts, and src/extractors/youtube.ts. A malicious page or attacker-controlled content on a matching domain can inject event-handler attributes or javascript URLs that execute when a victim or downstream application renders the extracted HTML. This issue is fixed in version 0.19.1.