CVE-2019-11744

Some HTML elements, such as <title> and <textarea>, can contain literal angle brackets without treating them as markup

published September 27, 2019

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
73.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Some HTML elements, such as &lt;title&gt; and &lt;textarea&gt;, can contain literal angle brackets without treating them as markup. It is possible to pass a literal closing tag to .innerHTML on these elements, and subsequent content after that will be parsed as if it were outside the tag. This can lead to XSS if a site does not filter user input as strictly for these elements as it does for other elements. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 69, Thunderbird < 68.1, Thunderbird < 60.9, Firefox ESR < 60.9, and Firefox ESR < 68.1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01450 · 73.2th percentile
Published
2019-09-27T17:17Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 SEP 17:17Z
    Some HTML elements, such as &lt;title&gt; and &lt;textarea&gt;, can contain literal angle brackets without treating them as markup
    cvelistv5