Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) Vulnerability in Prototype 1.7.3's stripTags and unescapeHTML Components

CVE-2020-27511 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

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