Medium
datatables.js — security advisory
This affects the package datatables.net before 1.11.3. If an array is passed to the HTML escape entities function it would not have its contents escaped.
- Products
- datatables.js
- Affected versions
- 1.10.10+dfsg-1, 1.10.10+dfsg-2, 1.10.11+dfsg-1, 1.10.11+dfsg-1ubuntu1, 1.10.11+dfsg-2, 1.10.15+dfsg-2, 1.10.16+dfsg-1, 1.10.19+dfsg-1, 1.10.20+dfsg-1, 1.10.21+dfsg-2, 1.10.21+dfsg-3, 1.10.9+dfsg-1, 1.11.4+dfsg-1, 1.11.5+dfsg-2, 1.11.5+dfsg-2build1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-23445
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:38 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
This affects the package datatables.net before 1.11.3. If an array is passed to the HTML escape entities function it would not have its contents escaped.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2021-23445
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Complete source record
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