CVE-2017-16876 (GCVE-0-2017-16876)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-12-29 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 20:35
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Summary
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.
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