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mistune Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

GHSA ID
GHSA-98gj-wwxm-cj3h
CVE ID
CVE-2017-16876
Severity
medium
Published
Updated
CVSS
6.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v3
6.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4
5.1 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the _keyify function in mistune.py in Mistune before 0.8.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging failure to escape the "key" argument.

CWEs

  • CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

References