CVE-2020-11888 (GCVE-0-2020-11888)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-04-20 15:48 – Updated: 2024-08-04 11:42
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Summary
python-markdown2 through 2.3.8 allows XSS because element names are mishandled unless a \w+ match succeeds. For example, an attack might use elementname@ or elementname- with an onclick attribute.
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