Is showdown safe to use?

showdown has 3 known vulnerabilities on the latest version (2.1.0). DepScope rates its health at 70/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of showdown?

The latest version of showdown is 2.1.0, released 2022-04-21.

Does showdown have known vulnerabilities?

Yes. showdown has 3 known vulnerabilities. See depscope.dev/pkg/npm/showdown for details.

Is showdown deprecated?

No, showdown is actively maintained. Latest release: 2.1.0 (2022-04-21).

What are alternatives to showdown?

Popular alternatives to showdown in npm include: ?, minimatch, ansi-styles, brace-expansion, semver.

What license does showdown use?

showdown is licensed under MIT.

showdown

npmv2.1.0

A Markdown to HTML converter written in Javascript

License MITpermissive62 versions2 maintainers1 deps1,462,932 weekly dl

showdownjs/showdown

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 70/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

19/25

security

15/15

maturity

11/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

3 medium

Advisories (3)

Severity	ID	Summary	Fixed in
medium	CVE-2026-59710	showdown allows stored cross-site scripting through table header ID injection	—
medium	CVE-2026-59711	showdown metadata title handling allows cross-site scripting	—
medium	CVE-2024-1899	Showdown vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in link/anchor parsing	—

Bundle & TypeScript

🌟

TypeScript

7/10typed

Types from @types/showdown (DefinitelyTyped)

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.69high

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (1)

commander

API access

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