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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-11744

This can lead to XSS if a site does not filter user input as strictly for these elements as it does for other elements.

MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 1.45%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.45%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Some HTML elements, such as &lt;title&gt; and &lt;textarea&gt;, can contain literal angle brackets without treating them as markup. It is possible to pass a literal closing tag to .innerHTML on these elements, and subsequent content after that will be parsed as if it were outside the tag. This can lead to XSS if a site does not filter user input as strictly for these elements as it does for other elements. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 69, Thunderbird < 68.1, Thunderbird < 60.9, Firefox ESR < 60.9, and Firefox ESR < 68.1.

CVSS 3.1
6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
1.45% probability · 72th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Affected
mozilla/firefox · mozilla/thunderbird
Source
security@mozilla.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.