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CVE-2017-16019 (GCVE-0-2017-16019)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-04 19:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:35
VLAI
Summary
GitBook is a command line tool (and Node.js library) for building beautiful books using GitHub/Git and Markdown (or AsciiDoc). Stored Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) is possible in GitBook before 3.2.2 by including code outside of backticks in any ebook. This code will be executed on the online reader.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Generic (CWE-79)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
HackerOne gitbook node module Affected: <3.2.2
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Date Public
2018-04-26 00:00
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