# Vulnerability in `rand-quote` and `hitokoto` plugins *...
Critical severity
Unreviewed
Published
Dec 1, 2021
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Feb 1, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Nov 30, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Dec 1, 2021
Last updated
Feb 1, 2023
Vulnerability in
rand-quote
andhitokoto
plugins Description: therand-quote
andhitokoto
fetch quotes from quotationspage.com and hitokoto.cn respectively, do some process on them and then useprint -P
to print them. If these quotes contained the proper symbols, they could trigger command injection. Given that they're an external API, it's not possible to know if the quotes are safe to use. Fixed in: 72928432. Impacted areas: -rand-quote
plugin (quote
function). -hitokoto
plugin (hitokoto
function).References