Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

xapian-core is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting XSS. The vulnerability is caused due to improper handling of HTML escaping by Xapian::MSet::snippet in queryparser/termgeneratorinternal.cc. This allows an attacker to potentially execute arbitrary scripts in the context of a user's web browser wh...

CVE-2018-0499

CVE-2018-0499 affects the Xapian project’s core library (xapian-core) before version 1.4.6. The root cause is incomplete HTML escaping in the code path for snippets, specifically in queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc via Xapian::MSet::snippet(), which enables cross-site scripting. Documented i...