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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-23980

A mutation XSS affects users calling bleach.clean with all of: svg or math in the allowed tags p or br in allowed tags style, title, noscript, script, textarea, noframes, iframe, or xmp in allowed tags the keyword argument strip_comments=False Note: none of the above tags are in the default allowed tags and strip_comments defaults to True.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:40 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-23980

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Feb 2023, 22:15 UTC

A mutation XSS affects users calling bleach.clean with all of: svg or math in the allowed tags p or br in allowed tags style, title, noscript, script, textarea, noframes, iframe, or xmp in allowed tags the keyword argument strip_comments=False Note: none of the above tags are in the default allowed tags and strip_comments defaults to True.

osv:CVE-2021-23980
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-23980",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2021-23980",
    "summary": "A mutation XSS affects users calling bleach.clean with all of: svg or math in the allowed tags p or br in allowed tags style, title, noscript, script, textarea, noframes, iframe, or xmp in allowed tags the keyword argument strip_comments=False Note: none of the above tags are in the default allowed tags and strip_comments defaults to True.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-23980",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
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      "aliases": [
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        "GHSA-vv2x-vrpj-qqpq",
        "PYSEC-2021-865"
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:32.586930689Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/mozilla/bleach/security/advisories/GHSA-vv2x-vrpj-qqpq",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 385533,
  "published_at": "2023-02-16T22:15:10.713+00:00"
}