CVE-2020-27783: PYSEC-2020-62 - A XSS vulnerability was discovered in python-lxml's clean module. The module's parser didn't properly imitate browsers, which caused differe

CVE-2020-27783 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2020-12-03

Vendors: PyPI.

Executive brief

A XSS vulnerability was discovered in python-lxml's clean module. The module's parser didn't properly imitate browsers, which caused different behaviors between the sanitizer and the user's page. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to run arbitrary HTML/JS code.

Affected products

PyPI lxml

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