Medium
Security advisory
docsify prior to 4.11.4 is susceptible to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). Docsify.js uses fragment identifiers (parameters after # sign) to load resources from server-side .md files. Due to lack of validation here, it is possible to provide external URLs after the /#/ (domain.com/#//attacker.com) and render arbitrary JavaScript/HTML inside docsify page.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-7680
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
docsify prior to 4.11.4 is susceptible to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). Docsify.js uses fragment identifiers (parameters after # sign) to load resources from server-side .md files. Due to lack of validation here, it is possible to provide external URLs after the /#/ (domain.com/#//attacker.com) and render arbitrary JavaScript/HTML inside docsify page.
osv:CVE-2020-7680
Complete source record
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"title": "CVE-2020-7680",
"summary": "docsify prior to 4.11.4 is susceptible to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). Docsify.js uses fragment identifiers (parameters after # sign) to load resources from server-side .md files. Due to lack of validation here, it is possible to provide external URLs after the /#/ (domain.com/#//attacker.com) and render arbitrary JavaScript/HTML inside docsify page.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-7680",
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"severity": "medium",
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"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-DOCSIFY-567099",
"https://github.com/docsifyjs/docsify/pull/1128"
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