CVE-2022-31743

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Dec 22, 2022
Updated: Apr 15, 2025
Reserved: May 26, 2022

Description

Firefox's HTML parser did not correctly interpret HTML comment tags, resulting in an incongruity with other browsers. This could have been used to escape HTML comments on pages that put user-controlled data in them. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 101.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FirefoxMozilla	before 101Affected

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-20/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1747388

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