Medium
Security advisory
The XAO::Web module before 1.84 for Perl mishandles < and > characters in JSON output during use of json-embed in Web::Action.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-36827
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The XAO::Web module before 1.84 for Perl mishandles < and > characters in JSON output during use of json-embed in Web::Action.
osv:CVE-2020-36827
Complete source record
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