CVE-2017-0928

FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-0928 describes an External Control of Critical State Data vulnerability in theguardian's html-janitor node module. An attacker can bypass the sanitization process by manipulating the '_sanitized' variable, potentially leading to cross-site scripting or other injection attacks. With a CVSS score of 6.1 (Medium), this vulnerability requires user interaction and network access for exploitation, impacting confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:theguardian:html-janitor:2.0.2:::::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

1.04%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

60.4%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-28

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0104 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 26,236 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-fx46-whrj-73v5medium

Bypassing Sanitization using DOM clobbering in html-janitor

Jul 24, 2018

References

github.com / guardian/html-janitor/issues/35

Third Party Advisory

hackerone.com / reports/308158

Third Party Advisory