Medium
Security advisory
Morris.js creates an svg graph, with labels that appear when hovering over a point. The hovering label names are not escaped in versions 0.5.0 and earlier. If control over the labels is obtained, script can be injected. The script will run on the client side whenever that specific graph is loaded.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-16022
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Morris.js creates an svg graph, with labels that appear when hovering over a point. The hovering label names are not escaped in versions 0.5.0 and earlier. If control over the labels is obtained, script can be injected. The script will run on the client side whenever that specific graph is loaded.
osv:CVE-2017-16022
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16022",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
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"title": "CVE-2017-16022",
"summary": "Morris.js creates an svg graph, with labels that appear when hovering over a point. The hovering label names are not escaped in versions 0.5.0 and earlier. If control over the labels is obtained, script can be injected. The script will run on the client side whenever that specific graph is loaded.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-16022",
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"severity": "medium",
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"affected": [
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"versions": [
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"0.2.4",
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:16.196058546Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/morrisjs/morris.js/pull/464",
"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/307"
],
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"security_relevant": true,
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 380216,
"published_at": "2018-06-04T19:29:01.35+00:00"
}