gsd-2020-27783
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:22
Details
A XSS vulnerability was discovered in python-lxml's clean module. The module's parser didn't properly imitate browsers, which caused different behaviors between the sanitizer and the user's page. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to run arbitrary HTML/JS code.
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CVE-2020-27783


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