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CVE-2016-10531

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10531 affects marked versions 0.3.5 and earlier, allowing for a bypass of its content injection protection (sanitize: true) due to improper parsing of HTML entities. This flaw enables the injection of javascript: URLs. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.1 (Medium), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:marked_project:marked:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/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
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0146 is in the 83rd 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 (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: markedFixed in: 0.3.6

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-vfvf-mqq8-rwqcmedium

Sanitization bypass using HTML Entities in marked

Feb 18, 2019

References

github.com / chjj/marked/pull/592
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / chjj/marked/pull/592/commits/2cff85979be8e7a026a9aca35542c470cf5da523
PatchThird Party Advisory
nodesecurity.io / advisories/101
Third Party Advisory