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CVE-2015-4706
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in IPython 3.x before 3.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via…
Medium6.1EPSS 2.1%
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Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in IPython 3.x before 3.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving JSON error messages and the /api/contents path.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIipythonGHSA-q326-jhw3-699g (opens in a new tab)
References (6)
- https://ipython.org/ipython-doc/3/whatsnew/version3.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/7222bd53ad089a65fd610fab4626f9d0ab47dfce (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150622 Re: CVE request: IPython XSS in JSON error responses (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/c2078a53543ed502efd968649fee1125e0eb549c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 75328 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235688 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-q326-jhw3-699g (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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