MediumFix available
xapian-core — security advisory
A cross-site scripting vulnerability in queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc in Xapian xapian-core before 1.4.6 exists due to incomplete HTML escaping by Xapian::MSet::snippet().
- Products
- xapian-core
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.4.6-r0
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-0499
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 21:56 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A cross-site scripting vulnerability in queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc in Xapian xapian-core before 1.4.6 exists due to incomplete HTML escaping by Xapian::MSet::snippet().
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2018-0499
xapian-core
Fixed versions: 1.4.6-r0
xapian-core
Fixed versions: 1.4.6-r0
xapian-core
Fixed versions: 1.4.6-r0
Complete source record
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