Hibernate-validator: rendering of invalid html with safehtml leads to html injection and xss

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    "title": "Hibernate-validator: rendering of invalid html with safehtml leads to html injection and xss",
    "summary": "A flaw was found in hibernate-validator's 'isValid' method in the org.hibernate.validator.internal.constraintvalidators.hv.SafeHtmlValidator class, which can be bypassed by omitting the tag ending in a less-than character. Browsers may render an invalid html, allowing HTML injection or Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) attacks.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:43.592070674Z",
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      "references": [
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