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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 2, 2018· Updated Dec 18, 2025

CVE-2018-19787

CVE-2018-19787

Description

An issue was discovered in lxml before 4.2.5. lxml/html/clean.py in the lxml.html.clean module does not remove javascript: URLs that use escaping, allowing a remote attacker to conduct XSS attacks, as demonstrated by "j a v a s c r i p t:" in Internet Explorer. This is a similar issue to CVE-2014-3146.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
lxmlPyPI
< 4.2.54.2.5

Affected products

64

Patches

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