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CVE-2019-11720

Mozilla: Character encoding XSS vulnerability

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.8

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 · 5.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE-172 · Encoding Error