Security vulnerabilities and automated fixes for cwe 79 issues
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A critical Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in `js/main.js` where commit messages fetched from the GitHub API were directly interpolated into `innerHTML` without any sanitization. An attacker with repository write access could push a commit with a malicious message like `<img src=x onerror=alert(document.cookie)>`, causing arbitrary JavaScript execution in every visitor's browser. The fix applies HTML entity encoding to all five dangerous characters before rendering.
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in `renderer/views/library.js` allowed attackers who could control mod metadata—such as category icons rendered in pack thumbnail grids—to inject arbitrary JavaScript through unescaped output in `innerHTML` assignments. The fix wraps the `catIcon()` return value in the existing `esc()` helper, ensuring all dynamically generated HTML content is properly encoded before insertion into the DOM.