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This PR contains the following updates:

Package Change Age Adoption Passing Confidence
fast-xml-parser 3.21.1 -> 4.1.2 age adoption passing confidence

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2023-26920

Impact

As a part of this vulnerability, user was able to se code using __proto__ as a tag or attribute name.

const { XMLParser, XMLBuilder, XMLValidator} = require("fast-xml-parser");

let XMLdata = "<__proto__><polluted>hacked</polluted></__proto__>"

const parser = new XMLParser();
let jObj = parser.parse(XMLdata);

console.log(jObj.polluted) // should return hacked

Patches

The problem has been patched in v4.1.2

Workarounds

User can check for "proto" in the XML string before parsing it to the parser.

References

https://gist.github.com/Sudistark/a5a45bd0804d522a1392cb5023aa7ef7


Release Notes

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  • Generating different combined, parser only, builder only, validator only browser bundles
  • Keeping cjs modules as they can be imported in cjs and esm modules both. Otherwise refer esm branch.

4.0.0-beta.8 / 2021-12-13

  • call tagValueProcessor for stop nodes

4.0.0-beta.7 / 2021-12-09

  • fix Validator bug when an attribute has no value but '=' only
  • XML Builder should suppress unpaired tags by default.
  • documents update for missing features
  • refactoring to use Object.assign
  • refactoring to remove repeated code

4.0.0-beta.6 / 2021-12-05

  • Support PI Tags processing
  • Support suppressBooleanAttributes by XML Builder for attributes with value true.

4.0.0-beta.5 / 2021-12-04

  • fix: when a tag with name "attributes"

4.0.0-beta.4 / 2021-12-02

  • Support HTML document parsing
  • skip stop nodes parsing when building the XML from JS object
  • Support external entites without DOCTYPE
  • update dev dependency: strnum v1.0.5 to fix long number issue

4.0.0-beta.3 / 2021-11-30

  • support global stopNodes expression like "*.stop"
  • support self-closing and paired unpaired tags
  • fix: CDATA should not be parsed.
  • Fix typings for XMLBuilder (#​396)(By Anders Emil Salvesen)
  • supports XML entities, HTML entities, DOCTYPE entities

⚠️ 4.0.0-beta.2 / 2021-11-19

  • rename attrMap to attibutes in parser output when preserveOrder:true
  • supports unpairedTags

⚠️ 4.0.0-beta.1 / 2021-11-18

  • Parser returns an array now
    • to make the structure common
    • and to return root level detail
  • renamed cdataTagName to cdataPropName
  • Added commentPropName
  • fix typings

⚠️ 4.0.0-beta.0 / 2021-11-16

  • Name change of many configuration properties.
    • attrNodeName to attributesGroupName
    • attrValueProcessor to attributeValueProcessor
    • parseNodeValue to parseTagValue
    • ignoreNameSpace to removeNSPrefix
    • numParseOptions to numberParseOptions
    • spelling correction for suppressEmptyNode
  • Name change of cli and browser bundle to fxparser
  • isArray option is added to parse a tag into array
  • preserveOrder option is added to render XML in such a way that the result js Object maintains the order of properties same as in XML.
  • Processing behaviour of tagValueProcessor and attributeValueProcessor are changes with extra input parameters
  • j2xparser is renamed to XMLBuilder.
  • You need to build XML parser instance for given options first before parsing XML.
  • fix #​327, #​336: throw error when extra text after XML content
  • fix #​330: attribute value can have '\n',
  • fix #​350: attributes can be separated by '\n' from tagname

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  • deps: update dependency fast-xml-parser to v4 [security] (b4f7923)

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