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Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-15739
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:27 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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