Description
A cross-site scripting vulnerability in queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc in Xapian xapian-core before 2.1.0 and before 1.4.32 exists due to incomplete HTML escaping by Xapian::MSet::snippet(). NOTE: this issue exists because of a missed corner case of CVE-2018-0499.
References3
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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4.4
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 17 · as of 10 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-79
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