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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-15739

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 8.1 through 12.2.1. Certain areas displaying Markdown were not properly sanitizing some XSS payloads.

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CVE-2019-15739
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1 Nov 2026, 07:27 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-15739

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Sept 2019, 18:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 8.1 through 12.2.1. Certain areas displaying Markdown were not properly sanitizing some XSS payloads.

osv:CVE-2019-15739
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-15739",
  "method": "structured",
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      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:38.390410881Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://about.gitlab.com/2019/08/29/security-release-gitlab-12-dot-2-dot-3-released/",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/64033"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 437928,
  "published_at": "2019-09-16T18:15:11.907+00:00"
}