CVE-2022-25847: Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in serve-lite

January 26, 2023 (updated April 1, 2025)

All versions of the package serve-lite are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) because when it detects a request to a directory, it renders a file listing of all of its contents with links that include the actual file names without any sanitization or output encoding.

References

gist.github.com/lirantal/52debd25284726fcc2eaed9c7512975c
github.com/advisories/GHSA-j8x7-qcw4-xx85
github.com/beenotung/serve-lite
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25847
security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SERVELITE-3149915

Code Behaviors & Features

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