CVE-2022-43983: Browsershot vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

November 25, 2022 (updated April 29, 2025)

Browsershot version 3.57.2 allows an external attacker to remotely obtain arbitrary local files. This is possible because the application does not validate that the HTML content passed to the Browsershot::html method does not contain URL’s that use the file:// protocol.

References

fluidattacks.com/advisories/khalid
github.com/advisories/GHSA-82h9-v8vh-mfpq
github.com/spatie/browsershot
github.com/spatie/browsershot/commit/92cf16fc098211731f80d21687abeafbe2c457ad
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-43983

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