Medium
Security advisory
Insufficient validation in cross-origin communication (postMessage) in reveal.js version 3.9.1 and earlier allow attackers to perform cross-site scripting attacks.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-8127
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:08 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Insufficient validation in cross-origin communication (postMessage) in reveal.js version 3.9.1 and earlier allow attackers to perform cross-site scripting attacks.
osv:CVE-2020-8127
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2020-02-28T20:15:11.537+00:00"
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