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Red Hat: CVE-2019-11744: CVE-2019-11744 Mozilla: XSS by breaking out of title and textarea elements using innerHTML (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 4, 2019
Added
Sep 5, 2019
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

Some HTML elements, such as <title> and <textarea>, can contain literal angle brackets without treating them as markup. It is possible to pass a literal closing tag to .innerHTML on these elements, and subsequent content after that will be parsed as if it were outside the tag. This can lead to XSS if a site does not filter user input as strictly for these elements as it does for other elements. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 69, Thunderbird < 68.1, Thunderbird < 60.9, Firefox ESR < 60.9, and Firefox ESR < 68.1.

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