Description
The serializer in html5lib before 0.99999999 might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by leveraging mishandling of special characters in attribute values, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-9909.
Affected products
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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/issues/12 ↗
- https://html5lib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changes.html#b9 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/5 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/8 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95132 ↗
- https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/commit/9b8d8eb5afbc066b7fac9390f5ec75e5e8a7cab7 ↗
- https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/issues/11 ↗