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CVE-2010-2479
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in HTML Purifier before 4.1.1, as used in Mahara and other products, when the browser is Internet…
Medium4.3EPSS 2.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
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- redhat
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in HTML Purifier before 4.1.1, as used in Mahara and other products, when the browser is Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistezyang/htmlpurifierGHSA-6rm6-mjmh-86jq (opens in a new tab)
References (8)
- 39613 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://wiki.mahara.org/Release_Notes/1.1.9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://htmlpurifier.org/news/2010/0531-4.1.1-released (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 41259 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://wiki.mahara.org/Release_Notes/1.2.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://repo.or.cz/w/htmlpurifier.git/commitdiff/18e538317a877a0509ae71a860429c41770da230 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://wiki.mahara.org/Release_Notes/1.0.15 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 40431 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-6rm6-mjmh-86jq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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