Security advisory

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  "id": "25f8658b906fb5766aac8799c3939224b7d822cc09739976cb81020a5f61349b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1999024",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-1999024",
    "summary": "MathJax version prior to version 2.7.4 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the \\unicode{} macro that can result in Potentially untrusted Javascript running within a web browser. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must view a page where untrusted content is processed using Mathjax. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.4 and later.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-1999024",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-1999024",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-1999024",
        "GHSA-3c48-6pcv-88rm"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/mathjax/mathjax",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "50c333cc695066b9d27f713035b44c9ef78ab658"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "a55da396c18cafb767a26aa9ad96f6f4199852f1"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mathjax:mathjax:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "2.7.4"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "a55da396c18cafb767a26aa9ad96f6f4199852f1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.7.3",
            "2.7.2",
            "2.7.2-beta.1",
            "2.7.2-rc",
            "2.7.2-beta.0",
            "2.7.1",
            "2.7.0",
            "2.6.1",
            "2.6.0",
            "2.5.3",
            "2.5.2",
            "2.5.1",
            "2.5.0",
            "2.4.0",
            "2.2.0",
            "2.1.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-1999024.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:34.671930251Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/commit/a55da396c18cafb767a26aa9ad96f6f4199852f1",
        "https://blog.bentkowski.info/2018/06/xss-in-google-colaboratory-csp-bypass.html"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-1999024",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382592,
  "published_at": "2018-07-23T16:29:00.32+00:00"
}