cvelistv5 - CVE-2018-1999024

CVE-2018-1999024

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2018-07-23 16:00

Modified

2024-09-16 22:46

Severity ?

Summary

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.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	https://blog.bentkowski.info/2018/06/xss-in-google-colaboratory-csp-bypass.html	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/commit/a55da396c18cafb767a26aa9ad96f6f4199852f1	Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://blog.bentkowski.info/2018/06/xss-in-google-colaboratory-csp-bypass.html	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/commit/a55da396c18cafb767a26aa9ad96f6f4199852f1	Patch, Third Party Advisory

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CVE-2018-1999024

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

ghsa-3c48-6pcv-88rm

Vulnerability from github

gsd-2018-1999024

Vulnerability from gsd

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