xapian-core Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
Date: 2022-05
Affected: rubygems/xapian-core
Attack vector: xss
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2018-0499
CWE: CWE-79
CVSS: 6.1 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

A cross-site scripting vulnerability in `queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc` in Xapian xapian-core before 1.4.6 exists due to incomplete HTML escaping by `Xapian::MSet::snippet()`.


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