CVE-2020-28502

high

Description

This affects the package xmlhttprequest before 1.7.0; all versions of package xmlhttprequest-ssl. Provided requests are sent synchronously (async=False on xhr.open), malicious user input flowing into xhr.send could result in arbitrary code being injected and run.

References

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-XMLHTTPREQUESTSSL-1082936

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-XMLHTTPREQUEST-1082935

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1082938

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1082937

https://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest/blob/1.6.0/lib/XMLHttpRequest.js%23L480

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-03-05

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.04608