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CVE-2015-6790 (GCVE-0-2015-6790)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-14 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:29
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Summary
The WebPageSerializerImpl::openTagToString function in WebKit/Source/web/WebPageSerializerImpl.cpp in the page serializer in Google Chrome before 47.0.2526.80 does not properly use HTML entities, which might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted document, as demonstrated by a double-quote character inside a single-quoted string.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2015-12-08 00:00
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