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Data Theft Repackaged: A Case Study in Malicious Wrapper Packages on npm
The Socket Research Team breaks down a malicious wrapper package that uses obfuscation to harvest credentials and exfiltrate sensitive data.
filthy-clean
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A lightweight, customizable library to sanitize user provided HTML.
Injecting user provided HTML leaves your app vulnerable to XSS: a malicious user can run arbitrary javascript in your page.
Instead of running complicated regexps on the html string itself, why not letting the browser handling the parsing instead?
document.implementation.createHTMLDocument()
allows us to manipulate a DOM element without running any scripts or preloading any resource.
const filthy = require('filthy-clean');
const cleanHtml = filthy(userProvidedHtmlString, options);
options.allowedNodes
- An array of nodes to keep (eg: ['div', 'br', 'strong'])options.allowedAttrs
- An array of attributes to keep (eg: ['alt', 'href', 'src'])options.allowedNodes
- ['div, 'p', 'a', 'br', 'i', 'em', 'strong', 'b', 'img']options.allowedAttrs
- ['href', 'title', 'alt', 'src', 'width', 'height']FAQs
Filter and sanitize HTML input
The npm package filthy-clean receives a total of 3 weekly downloads. As such, filthy-clean popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that filthy-clean demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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