Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition 11.3.x and 11.4.x before 11.4.13, 11.5.x before 11.5.6, and 11.6.x before 11.6.1. It allows XSS.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-20491
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition 11.3.x and 11.4.x before 11.4.13, 11.5.x before 11.5.6, and 11.6.x before 11.6.1. It allows XSS.
osv:CVE-2018-20491
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:15.931530479Z",
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"references": [
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"published_at": "2019-12-30T22:15:11.73+00:00"
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