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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-36653

A vulnerability was found in GENI Portal. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file portal/www/portal/error-text.php. The manipulation of the argument error leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be launched remotely. The patch is identified as c2356cc41260551073bfaa3a94d1ab074f554938. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-218474 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:28 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-36653

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Jan 2023, 08:15 UTC

A vulnerability was found in GENI Portal. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file portal/www/portal/error-text.php. The manipulation of the argument error leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be launched remotely. The patch is identified as c2356cc41260551073bfaa3a94d1ab074f554938. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-218474 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

osv:CVE-2020-36653
Complete source record
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 385186,
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