Medium
Security advisory
Shout is an IRC client. Because the `/topic` command in messages is unescaped, attackers have the ability to inject HTML scripts that will run in the victim's browser. Affects shout >=0.44.0 <=0.49.3.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-16043
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Shout is an IRC client. Because the `/topic` command in messages is unescaped, attackers have the ability to inject HTML scripts that will run in the victim's browser. Affects shout >=0.44.0 <=0.49.3.
osv:CVE-2017-16043
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:46.600724121Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/344",
"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/322"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 379692,
"published_at": "2018-06-04T19:29:02.147+00:00"
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