CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4891
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The xss_clean function in CodeIgniter before 2.1.4 might allow remote attackers to bypass an intended protection mechanism and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an unclosed HTML tag.
Affected configurations
• codeigniter codeigniter (< 2.1.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/issues/4020 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://nealpoole.com/blog/2013/07/codeigniter-21-xss-clean-filter-bypass/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.codeigniter.com/userguide2/changelog.html Release Notes
- https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/issues/4020 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://nealpoole.com/blog/2013/07/codeigniter-21-xss-clean-filter-bypass/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.codeigniter.com/userguide2/changelog.html Release Notes