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HistoryJan 07, 2021 - 9:54 p.m.

lxml vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

2021-01-0721:54:01
Google
osv.dev
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python
lxml
cross-site scripting
vulnerability
parser
sanitizer
remote attacker
html
js
code

EPSS

0.004

Percentile

73.0%

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.