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.
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 <title> and <textarea>, 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 · 73th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · mozilla/thunderbird
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
EPSS 1.5% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1562033Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201911-07
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4150-1/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-25/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-26/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-27/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-29/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-30/Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1562033Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201911-07
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4150-1/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-25/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-26/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-27/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-29/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-30/Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.