Code Injection in prism - CVE-2024-53382
Published: April 16, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU107489
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-53382
CWE-ID: CWE-94
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: PrismJS
Affected software:
prism
prism
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to Prism (aka PrismJS) allows DOM Clobbering (with resultant XSS for untrusted input that contains HTML but does not directly contain JavaScript), because document.currentScript lookup can be shadowed by attacker-injected HTML elements.. A remote user can send a specially crafted request and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
How to mitigate CVE-2024-53382
Install updates from vendor's website.