Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.
VOLERION
Volerion Security Research

NOT DEFERRED DATABASE

VULNERABILITIES

CVE-2020-4038 Details

Description

GraphQL Playground (graphql-playground-html NPM package) before version 1.6.22 have a severe XSS Reflection attack vulnerability. All unsanitized user input passed into renderPlaygroundPage() method could trigger this vulnerability. This has been patched in graphql-playground-html version 1.6.22. Note that some of the associated dependent middleware packages are also affected including but not limited to graphql-playground-middleware-express before version 1.7.16, graphql-playground-middleware-koa before version 1.6.15, graphql-playground-middleware-lambda before version 1.7.17, and graphql-playground-middleware-hapi before 1.6.13.

Metrics

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
prisma graphql-playground-html
< 1.6.22

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:prisma:graphql-playground-html:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
prisma graphql-playground-middleware-express
< 1.7.16

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:prisma:graphql-playground-middleware-express:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
prisma graphql-playground-middleware-hapi
< 1.6.13

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:prisma:graphql-playground-middleware-hapi:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
prisma graphql-playground-middleware-koa
< 1.6.15

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:prisma:graphql-playground-middleware-koa:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
prisma graphql-playground-middleware-lambda
< 1.7.17

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:prisma:graphql-playground-middleware-lambda:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

4 change records found show changes


QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-4038
NVD Published Date:
Jun 8, 2020
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]