Medium
Security advisory
In Eclipse Theia versions up to and including 0.16.0, in the notification messages there is no HTML escaping, so Javascript code can run.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-28162
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Eclipse Theia versions up to and including 0.16.0, in the notification messages there is no HTML escaping, so Javascript code can run.
osv:CVE-2021-28162
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:35.846499987Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-03-12T22:15:15.157+00:00"
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