Affected: kepano defuddle

Defuddle cleans up HTML pages. Prior to 0.19.1, site extractors interpolate page-derived image alt and src values, og:image values, and video descriptions into HTML strings without context-appropriate escaping, and buildExtractorResponse() returns this contentHtml without the main pipeline's DOM-based sanitization. The affected paths include src/extractors/x-article.ts, src/extractors/substack.ts, and src/extractors/youtube.ts. A malicious page or attacker-controlled content on a matching domain can inject event-handler attributes or javascript URLs that execute when a victim or downstream application renders the extracted HTML. This issue is fixed in version 0.19.1.

Affected: npm: defuddle

## Summary

An Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation issue in the site extractor component allows an attacker-controlled attribute value to be injected into output HTML without escaping. An attacker who crafts a malicious HTML page or controls content on a matching domain can execute arbitrary scripts when a victim processes the page, resulting in Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). This affects defuddle through 0.19.0 and has been patched in version 0.19.1.

## Impact

This vulnerability allows for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) execution without needing to compromise external websites. Affected consumers include: - Obsidian Web Clipper, - web services serving the parsed output directly as HTML, and - any downstream application rendering the unsanitized HTML results

## Patch This issue has been patched in defuddle version 0.19.1. Users are encouraged to update to the latest release.