OWASP AntiSamy Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

OWASP AntiSamy before 1.5.7 allows XSS via HTML5 entities, as demonstrated by use of &colon; to construct a javascript: URL.

Vulnerability ID: GHSA-q44v-xc3g-v7jq
Aliases: CVE-2017-14735
Published: 2018-10-18 17:22:11
CWE: CWE-79
Severity rating: MODERATE
CVSS: type: CVSS_V3
score: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Affected packages:
package: ecosystem: Maven
name: org.owasp.antisamy:antisamy