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

CVE-2018-12606

Medium
5.4/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition before 10.7.6, 10.8.x before 10.8.5, and 11.x before 11.0.1. The wiki contains a persistent XSS issue due to a lack of output encoding affecting a specific markdown feature.

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  • NETWORK
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  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
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  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published