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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-12882

Submitty through 20.04.01 allows XSS via upload of an SVG document, as demonstrated by an attack by a Student against a Teaching Fellow.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:53 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-12882

core-osv · Original source

Published 15 May 2020, 05:15 UTC

Submitty through 20.04.01 allows XSS via upload of an SVG document, as demonstrated by an attack by a Student against a Teaching Fellow.

osv:CVE-2020-12882
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-12882",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-12882",
    "summary": "Submitty through 20.04.01 allows XSS via upload of an SVG document, as demonstrated by an attack by a Student against a Teaching Fellow.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-12882",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:57.076540240Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/Submitty/Submitty/issues/5266"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 383155,
  "published_at": "2020-05-15T05:15:13.397+00:00"
}