CVE-2019-11720
Mozilla: Character encoding XSS vulnerability
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Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · July 9, 2019
Updated · November 22, 2025
Description
Some unicode characters are incorrectly treated as whitespace during the parsing of web content instead of triggering parsing errors. This allows malicious code to then be processed, evading cross-site scripting (XSS) filtering. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 5.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE-172 · Encoding Error