CVE-2021-39946
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-01-18 16:52
Modified
2024-08-04 02:20
Summary
Improper neutralization of user input in GitLab CE/EE versions 14.3 to 14.3.6, 14.4 to 14.4.4, and 14.5 to 14.5.2 allowed an attacker to exploit XSS by abusing the generation of the HTML code related to emojis
Impacted products
GitLabGitLab
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