CVE-2020-27511 | BDVDB-2026-155687 Detail

Description#

An issue was discovered in the stripTags and unescapeHTML components in Prototype 1.7.3 where an attacker can cause a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) through stripping crafted HTML tags.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://prototypejs.org/
https://github.com/prototypejs/prototype/blob/dee2f7d8611248abce81287e1be4156011953c90/src/prototype/lang/string.js#L283
https://github.com/yetingli/PoCs/blob/main/CVE-2020-27511/Prototype.md

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12021-06-21Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-04Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.