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CVE-2026-33979
HIGH · CVSS 8.2
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-03-27T22:16:22.433 · Last modified 2026-06-17T10:38:22.467

Summary

Express XSS Sanitizer is Express 4.x and 5.x middleware which sanitizes user input data (in req.body, req.query, req.headers and req.params) to prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attack. A vulnerability has been identified in versions prior to 2.0.2 where restrictive sanitization configurations are silently ignored. In version 2.0.2, the validation logic has been updated to respect explicitly provided empty configurations. Now, if allowedTags or allowedAttributes are provided (even if empty), they are passed directly to sanitize-html without being overridden.

Affected products

express_xss_sanitizer_project — express_xss_sanitizer

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