CVE-2023-44270

5.3 MEDIUM
Published: September 29, 2023 Modified: November 03, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in PostCSS before 8.4.31. The vulnerability affects linters using PostCSS to parse external untrusted CSS. An attacker can prepare CSS in such a way that it will contains parts parsed by PostCSS as a CSS comment. After processing by PostCSS, it will be included in the PostCSS output in CSS nodes (rules, properties) despite being included in a comment.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/postcss/postcss/releases/tag/8.4.31
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch Release Notes
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/issues/2820
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/main/lib/tokenize.js#L25
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/postcss/postcss/releases/tag/8.4.31
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Release Notes

9 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
5.3 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.2%
40th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

postcss