Medium
Security advisory
A Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in Apache Roller. Roller's Math Comment Authenticator did not property sanitize user input and could be exploited to perform Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS). The mitigation for this vulnerability is to upgrade to the latest version of Roller, which is now Roller 5.2.3.
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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-0234
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in Apache Roller. Roller's Math Comment Authenticator did not property sanitize user input and could be exploited to perform Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS). The mitigation for this vulnerability is to upgrade to the latest version of Roller, which is now Roller 5.2.3.
osv:CVE-2019-0234
Complete source record
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