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

CVE-2022-4396

Medium
5.4/10

Summary

** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** A vulnerability was found in RDFlib pyrdfa3 and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function "_get_option" of the file "pyRdfa/__init__.py". The manipulation leads to Cross-Site Scripting. The attack may be initiated remotely. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. This issue affects versions prior to 3.6.2

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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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