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CVE-2016-1000237

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1000237 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in sanitize-html versions prior to 1.4.3, affecting products like apostrophecms. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction, and could lead to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit or Nuclei, or entries in ExploitDB. The vulnerability has received minimal community discussion and media coverage, indicating low public attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apostrophecms:sanitize-html:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0084 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: sanitize-htmlFixed in: 1.4.3

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-3j7m-hmh3-9jmpmedium

Cross-Site Scripting in sanitize-html

Apr 16, 2020

References

nodesecurity.io / advisories/135
Third Party Advisory
raw.githubusercontent.com / distributedweaknessfiling/cvelist/master/2016/1000xxx/CVE-2016-1000237.json
Not Applicable