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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-0234

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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1 Nov 2026, 07:05 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-0234

core-osv · Original source

Published 15 Jul 2019, 22:15 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-0234",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "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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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:48.445874687Z",
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      "references": [
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        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r81a61626d03a11e610c4fbf641f19a6075a0d082906388826829663d%40%3Cuser.roller.apache.org%3E"
      ],
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 436761,
  "published_at": "2019-07-15T22:15:12.133+00:00"
}