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CVE-2017-16876

6.1 mediumEPSS 2.2%

Medium (6.1). EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in mistune 0.8.1.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the _keyify function in mistune.py in Mistune before 0.8.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging failure to escape the "key" argument.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.1 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 82% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-79
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-98gj-wwxm-cj3hPyPImistune<0.8.10.8.1
PYSEC-2017-18PyPImistune<0.8.10.8.1

References

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