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GHSA-pgww-xf46-h92r

lxml vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2020-27783

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
PyPI lxml < 4.6.2 4.6.2

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

A XSS vulnerability was discovered in python-lxml's clean module. The module's parser didn't properly imitate browsers, which caused different behaviors between the sanitizer and the user's page. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to run arbitrary HTML/JS code.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.