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Status published
Medium
CVE-2018-20583
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the PHP League CommonMark library...
Vulnerability Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the PHP League CommonMark library versions 0.15.6 through 0.18.x before 0.18.1 allows remote attackers to insert unsafe URLs into HTML (even if allow_unsafe_links is false) via a newline character (e.g., writing javascript as javascri%0apt).
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
commonmark
Vulnerable Versions:
0.15.6
Timeline
Official Publish:
December 30th, 2018
Last Modified:
September 16th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.