CVE-2016-9910
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Feb 22, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 8, 2016
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/issues/12
- https://html5lib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changes.html#b9
- [oss-security] 20161206 CVE Request: html5lib: potential cross-site scripting vulnerablity: quote attributes that need escaping in legacy browsersmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20161208 Re: CVE Request: html5lib: potential cross-site scripting vulnerablity: quote attributes that need escaping in legacy browsersmailing-list
- 95132vdb-entry
- https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/commit/9b8d8eb5afbc066b7fac9390f5ec75e5e8a7cab7
- https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/issues/11
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