Description
The serializer in html5lib before 0.99999999 might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by leveraging mishandling of special characters in attribute values, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-9909.
Published: 2017-02-22
Score: 6.1 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0061 The serializer in html5lib before 0.99999999 might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by leveraging mishandling of special characters in attribute values, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-9909.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-8f6m-gfq9-g33v Cross-site Scripting in html5lib
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Html5lib Html5lib
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T03:07:31.199Z

Reserved: 2016-12-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-9910

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-02-22T16:59:00.443

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2016-9910

cve-icon Redhat

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