Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting org.owasp.antisamy:antisamy package, versions [,1.5.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGOWASPANTISAMY-31591
  • published28 Nov 2017
  • disclosed5 Jul 2017
  • creditRajesh Veerappan

Introduced: 5 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-14735  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.owasp.antisamy:antisamy to version 1.5.7 or higher.

Overview

org.owasp.antisamy:antisamy is a library for performing fast, configurable cleansing of HTML coming from untrusted sources.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via HTML5 entities, as demonstrated by use of : to construct a javascript: URL.

Details

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