GHSA-pgww-xf46-h92rMediumCVSS 6.1

lxml vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Published
January 7, 2021
Last Modified
December 20, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A XSS vulnerability was discovered in python-lxml's clean module. The module's parser didn't properly imitate browsers, which caused different behaviors between the sanitizer and the user's page. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to run arbitrary HTML/JS code.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/lxml:< 4.6.2

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