Today, it contains several unpatched vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to inject malicious scripts into your site. Known Vulnerabilities in Bootstrap v4.0.0-alpha.6
Bootstrap has long been the world's most popular front-end component library. However, using older, pre-release versions like v4.0.0-alpha.6 (released in January 2017) comes with significant security risks that many developers overlook. In this post, we'll examine the known vulnerabilities affecting this specific alpha release and why you should upgrade immediately. bootstrap v4.0.0-alpha.6 vulnerabilities
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Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Bootstrap v4.0.0-alpha.6, which can be categorized into various types: : Versions prior to v4
property lacks sufficient sanitization, making it susceptible to XSS attacks through the same mechanism as the Tooltip plugin. CVE-2019-8331 : XSS via Tooltip/Popover Description
The data-parent attribute, used to reference ancestor containers, trusts raw input without validation.
: Versions prior to v4.0.0 are vulnerable to XSS through the data-loading-text attribute. Vulnerability Summary Table Description CVE-2019-8331 Tooltip / Popover Medium (6.1) Script injection via data-template attribute. CVE-2018-14040 Tooltip / Popover Medium (6.1) XSS via the title attribute. CVE-2024-6531 Medium (6.4) XSS via data-slide and data-slide-to attributes. N/A XSS via data-loading-text attribute. Recommendations