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CVE-2018-19787
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-12-02T10:29:00.227 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:49:52.673

Summary

An issue was discovered in lxml before 4.2.5. lxml/html/clean.py in the lxml.html.clean module does not remove javascript: URLs that use escaping, allowing a remote attacker to conduct XSS attacks, as demonstrated by "j a v a s c r i p t:" in Internet Explorer. This is a similar issue to CVE-2014-3146.

Affected products

lxml — lxml

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References

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