no-vulnerable-javascript-libraries checks for known vulnerabilities
within client-side JavaScript libraries and frameworks detected on a
web site.
webhint uses Snyk’s Vulnerability DB to lookup known
vulnerabilities.
Making sure your website dependencies are free of known vulnerabilities is important in preventing malicious attacks such as cross-site scripting attacks that can be used to compromise web site information.
This hint uses Snyk’s Vulnerability DB and js-library-detector to check if the website is running a vulnerable version of a client-side JavaScript library or framework.
The vulnerability database is updated automatically from Snyk if the cached content is older than 24h.
You can configure the minimum severity to report in the
.hintrc file:
{
"connector": {...},
"formatters": [...],
"hints": {
"no-vulnerable-javascript-libraries": ["error", {
"severity": "low|medium|high"
}],
...
},
...
}The severity possible values are: low (default), medium,
and high.
If you configure this hint to high, and webhint only finds
low or medium vulnerabilities, no issues will be raised.
This package is installed automatically by webhint:
npm install hint --save-devTo use it, activate it via the .hintrc configuration file:
{
"connector": {...},
"formatters": [...],
"hints": {
"no-vulnerable-javascript-libraries": "error",
...
},
"parsers": [...],
...
}Note: The recommended way of running webhint is as a devDependency of
your project.