The html-to-text package offers a robust solution for converting HTML content into clean, readable plain text, a crucial task for applications like email processing, content summarization, and creating accessible content. Examining versions 0.1.0 and 1.0.0 reveals key evolutionary steps. Both share a foundation built on core dependencies like htmlparser for parsing HTML, underscore for utility functions, underscore.string for enhanced string manipulation, and optimist for command-line argument parsing – indicating a consistent approach to core functionality. They are both developed by Malte Legenhausen and share the same repository.
However, the significant difference lies in the release date and implied feature enhancements or bug fixes. Version 0.1.0 was released in July 2014, while version 1.0.0 followed in October of the same year. This suggests a focused development cycle addressing initial issues, improving conversion accuracy, or introducing new options for developers to customize the text conversion process. Moving from 0.1.0 to 1.0.0 likely reflects increased stability and potentially refined handling of complex HTML structures. Developers should consider 1.0.0 the preferred choice for its enhanced reliability and potential for better handling of diverse HTML inputs, ensuring a more consistent and predictable output compared to the initial 0.1.0 release. The jump to version 1.0.0 from 0.1.0 indicates a high level of stability and confidence in the tool.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 1.0.0 of the package
Regular Expression Denial of Service in underscore.string
Versions of underscore.string prior to 3.3.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS).
The function unescapeHTML is vulnerable to ReDoS due to an overly-broad regex. The slowdown is approximately 2s for 50,000 characters but grows exponentially with larger inputs.
Upgrade to version 3.3.5 or higher.
Prototype Pollution in minimist
Affected versions of minimist are vulnerable to prototype pollution. Arguments are not properly sanitized, allowing an attacker to modify the prototype of Object, causing the addition or modification of an existing property that will exist on all objects.
Parsing the argument --__proto__.y=Polluted adds a y property with value Polluted to all objects. The argument --__proto__=Polluted raises and uncaught error and crashes the application.
This is exploitable if attackers have control over the arguments being passed to minimist.
Upgrade to versions 0.2.1, 1.2.3 or later.
Prototype Pollution in minimist
Minimist prior to 1.2.6 and 0.2.4 is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via file index.js, function setKey() (lines 69-95).
