CVE-2019-11720 (GCVE-0-2019-11720)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-07-23 13:17
Modified
2024-08-04 23:03
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- Character encoding XSS vulnerability
Summary
Some unicode characters are incorrectly treated as whitespace during the parsing of web content instead of triggering parsing errors. This allows malicious code to then be processed, evading cross-site scripting (XSS) filtering. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.
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