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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-23414

This affects the package video.js before 7.14.3. The src attribute of track tag allows to bypass HTML escaping and execute arbitrary code.

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CVE-2021-23414
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31 Oct 2026, 11:58 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-23414

core-osv · Original source

Published 28 Jul 2021, 08:15 UTC

This affects the package video.js before 7.14.3. The src attribute of track tag allows to bypass HTML escaping and execute arbitrary code.

osv:CVE-2021-23414
Complete source record
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