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FKIE_CVE-2018-1999024

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-07-23 16:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:48
Severity
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
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
cve@mitre.orghttps://blog.bentkowski.info/2018/06/xss-in-google-colaboratory-csp-bypass.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/commit/a55da396c18cafb767a26aa9ad96f6f4199852f1Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blog.bentkowski.info/2018/06/xss-in-google-colaboratory-csp-bypass.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/commit/a55da396c18cafb767a26aa9ad96f6f4199852f1Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mathjax mathjax *
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