CVE-2019-11720
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-07-23 13:17
Modified
2024-08-04 23:03
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Some unicode characters are incorrectly treated as whitespace during the parsing of web content instead of triggering parsing errors. This allows malicious code to then be processed, evading cross-site scripting (XSS) filtering. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.
References
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