Medium

AngularJS Incomplete Filtering of Special Elements vulnerability

  • Disclosed: 04.06.2025
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Improper sanitization of the value of the 'href' and 'xlink:href' attributes in '<image>' SVG elements in AngularJS's 'ngSanitize' module allows attackers to bypass common image source restrictions. This can lead to a form of Content Spoofing https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Content_Spoofing  and also negatively affect the application's performance and behavior by using too large or slow-to-load images.

This issue affects AngularJS versions greater than or equal to 1.3.1.

Note: The AngularJS project is End-of-Life and will not receive any updates to address this issue. For more information see here https://docs.angularjs.org/misc/version-support-status .

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package angular-sanitize >= 1.3.1, <= 1.8.3 no fix

References

CVSS score 4.8/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-791
Platform
npm
Package
angular-sanitize
Disclosed
04.06.2025
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-4p4w-6hg8-63wx - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: angular-sanitize

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