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Vulnerability record · CVE-2022-25887 · published 30 August 2022

CVE-2022-25887: Apostrophecms sanitize-html inefficient regular expression (redos) vulnerability

Apostrophecms · Sanitize Html

The package sanitize-html before 2.7.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure global regular expression replacement logic of HTML comment removal.

7.5 CVSS 3.1 High EPSS 1.5% · top 27.6% CWE-1333 · Inefficient regular expression (ReDoS)
7.5CVSS 3.1 base score
1.5%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
8References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

The package sanitize-html before 2.7.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure global regular expression replacement logic of HTML comment removal.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

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https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/b4682c12fd30e12e82fa2d9b766de91d7d2cd23c PatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/pull/557 Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-3008102 PatchThird Party Advisory
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SANITIZEHTML-2957526 PatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/b4682c12fd30e12e82fa2d9b766de91d7d2cd23c PatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/pull/557 Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-3008102 PatchThird Party Advisory
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SANITIZEHTML-2957526 PatchThird Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2022-25887), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-28). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.