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The sanitize_string function in Zenphoto before 1.4.9 does not properly sanitize HTML tags, which allows remote attackers to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack by wrapping a payload in "<<script></script>script>payload<script></script></script>", or in an image tag, with the payload as the onerror event

Published Dec 31, 2019

Description

The sanitize_string function in Zenphoto before 1.4.9 does not properly sanitize HTML tags, which allows remote attackers to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack by wrapping a payload in "<<script></script>script>payload<script></script></script>", or in an image tag, with the payload as the onerror event.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (3)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Dec 31, 2019
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jul 17, 2015
Link CVE-2015-5593
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2015-5593
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2015-5593