{"id":"CVE-2018-1999024","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-1999024","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:51:10.538Z","title":"MathJax version prior to version 2.7.4 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the \\unicode{} macro that can result in Potentially untrusted Javascript running within a web browser.","description":"MathJax version prior to version 2.7.4 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the \\unicode{} macro that can result in Potentially untrusted Javascript running within a web browser. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must view a page where untrusted content is processed using Mathjax. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.4 and later.","published":"2018-07-23T16:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:48:18.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":5.4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["mathjax/mathjax"],"epss":{"score":0.01448,"percentile":0.73194,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.45%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://blog.bentkowski.info/2018/06/xss-in-google-colaboratory-csp-bypass.html","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/commit/a55da396c18cafb767a26aa9ad96f6f4199852f1","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://blog.bentkowski.info/2018/06/xss-in-google-colaboratory-csp-bypass.html","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/commit/a55da396c18cafb767a26aa9ad96f6f4199852f1","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1999024","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}