CVE-2017-11593

medium

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Markdown Preview Plus extension before 0.5.7 for Chrome allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML into some web applications via the upload and display of crafted text, markdown, or rst files that are designed to be viewed in the browser as plain text, but that will be converted to HTML without proper sanitization.

References

https://github.com/volca/markdown-preview/commit/1181f044a5457d5e1ac35804ecd84e05977f1920

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-07-24

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N