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

CVE-2023-1932

Severity Medium
Score 6.1/10

Summary

A flaw was found in hibernate-validator's 'isValid' method in the "org.hibernate.validator.internal.constraintvalidators.hv.SafeHtmlValidator" class can be bypassed by omitting the tag ending in a less-than-character. Browsers may render an invalid HTML, allowing HTML injection or Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue affects hibernate-validator versions prior to 6.2.0.Final.

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  • REQUIRED
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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.

Advisory Timeline

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