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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2017-11-07 00:00
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