CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-6790

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2015-12-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-12-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The WebPageSerializerImpl::openTagToString function in WebKit/Source/web/WebPageSerializerImpl.cpp in the page serializer in Google Chrome before 47.0.2526.80 does not properly use HTML entities, which might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted document, as demonstrated by a double-quote character inside a single-quoted string.

Affected configurations

• google chrome (<= 47.0.2526.73)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References