CVE-2016-5394

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5394
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5394.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5394
Aliases
Published
2017-07-19T15:29:00.180Z
Modified
2026-03-14T09:21:07.419087Z
Severity
  • 6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In the XSS Protection API module before 1.0.12 in Apache Sling, the encoding done by the XSSAPI.encodeForJSString() method is not restrictive enough and for some input patterns allows script tags to pass through unencoded, leading to potential XSS vulnerabilities.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "1.0.12"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "1.0.12"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "unencoded"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5394.json"