Medium
Security advisory
Possible cross-site scripting vulnerability in libxml after commit 960f0e2.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-3709
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Possible cross-site scripting vulnerability in libxml after commit 960f0e2.
osv:CVE-2016-3709
Complete source record
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