CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-1999024
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-07-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/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
MathJax version prior to version 2.7.4 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the \unicode{} macro that can result in Potentially untrusted Javascript running within a web browser. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must view a page where untrusted content is processed using Mathjax. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.4 and later.
Affected configurations
• mathjax mathjax (< 2.7.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://blog.bentkowski.info/2018/06/xss-in-google-colaboratory-csp-bypass.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/commit/a55da396c18cafb767a26aa9ad96f6f4199852f1 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.bentkowski.info/2018/06/xss-in-google-colaboratory-csp-bypass.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/commit/a55da396c18cafb767a26aa9ad96f6f4199852f1 Patch, Third Party Advisory