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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2017-14735 json

OWASP AntiSamy Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

published 2017-09-25 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-q44v-xc3g-v7jq , EUVD-2018-0657

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

Patch / fix

  • maven org.owasp.antisamy:antisamy 1.5.7
  • antisamy_project antisamy 1.5.7
  • libowasp-antisamy-java Debian 14, Debian 13 1.7.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14735

Exploit prediction

1.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.owasp.antisamy:antisamy
<1.5.7
1.5.7

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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