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CVE-2021-32696

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-32696 is a medium-severity type-confusion vulnerability affecting the "striptags" npm package versions prior to 3.2.0. This flaw allows unsanitized string concatenation when an array-like object is passed as input, potentially leading to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) if an attacker can control the input shape. The CVSS score is 5.3 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and a low impact on integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:striptags_project:striptags:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.7LOW

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0108 is in the 39th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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: striptagsFixed in: 3.2.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-qxg5-2qff-p49rmedium

Passing in a non-string 'html' argument can lead to unsanitized output

Jun 18, 2021

References

github.com / ericnorris/striptags/commit/f252a6b0819499cd65403707ebaf5cc925f2faca
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / ericnorris/striptags/releases/tag/v3.2.0
Third Party Advisory
github.com / ericnorris/striptags/security/advisories/GHSA-qxg5-2qff-p49r
Third Party Advisory
npmjs.com / package/striptags
ProductThird Party Advisory