github - ghsa-3c48-6pcv-88rm

ghsa-3c48-6pcv-88rm

Vulnerability from github

Published

2018-07-27 17:05

Modified

2023-09-11 16:16

Severity ?

5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Summary

Macro in MathJax running untrusted Javascript within a web browser

Details

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.

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  "id": "GHSA-3c48-6pcv-88rm",
  "modified": "2023-09-11T16:16:25Z",
  "published": "2018-07-27T17:05:27Z",
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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
	https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/commit/a55da396c18cafb767a26aa9ad96f6f4199852f1	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://blog.bentkowski.info/2018/06/xss-in-google-colaboratory-csp-bypass.html	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

▼

n/a

Version: n/a

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Nomenclature

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Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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