CVE-2018-7753 (GCVE-0-2018-7753)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-07 23:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:25
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in Bleach 2.1.x before 2.1.3. Attributes that have URI values weren't properly sanitized if the values contained character entities. Using character entities, it was possible to construct a URI value with a scheme that was not allowed that would slide through unsanitized.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2261 records in the last 180 days details
References
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