Medium
Security advisory
GitLab 12.1 through 12.8.1 allows XSS. The merge request submission form was determined to have a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-10078
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
GitLab 12.1 through 12.8.1 allows XSS. The merge request submission form was determined to have a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability.
osv:CVE-2020-10078
Complete source record
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