Medium

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Select2

  • Disclosed: 14.05.2022
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

In Select2 through 4.0.5, as used in Snipe-IT and other products, rich selectlists allow XSS. This affects use cases with Ajax remote data loading when HTML templates are used to display listbox data.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package select2 < 4.0.6 4.0.6

References

CVSS score 6.1/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79
Platform
npm
Package
select2
Disclosed
14.05.2022
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-rf66-hmqf-q3fc - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: select2

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This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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