CVE-2016-5394: In the XSS Protection API module before 1.0.12 in Apache Sling, the encoding done by the XSSAPI.encodeForJSString() method is not restrictive enough and for…

PriorityP426medium6.1CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUIRSCCLILAN

EPSS

2.60%

83.6th percentile

In the XSS Protection API module before 1.0.12 in Apache Sling, the encoding done by the XSSAPI.encodeForJSString() method is not restrictive enough and for some input patterns allows script tags to pass through unencoded, leading to potential XSS vulnerabilities.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
apache	sling	< 1.0.12	1.0.12
apache_software_foundation	apache_sling	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.1MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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