CVSS 3.1
8.1 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-28502
High (8.1) in xmlhttprequest project xmlhttprequest. EPSS 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in xmlhttprequest 1.7.0.
This affects the package xmlhttprequest before 1.7.0; all versions of package xmlhttprequest-ssl. Provided requests are sent synchronously (async=False on xhr.open), malicious user input flowing into xhr.send could result in arbitrary code being injected and run.
Severity
- EPSS
- 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-94
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- xmlhttprequest_project:xmlhttprequest
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg | npm | xmlhttprequest | <1.7.0 | 1.7.0 |
| GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg | npm | xmlhttprequest-ssl | <1.6.2 | 1.6.2 |