Medium
Security advisory
In Zulip Server versions before 1.7.2, there were XSS issues with the frontend markdown processor.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-9986
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Zulip Server versions before 1.7.2, there were XSS issues with the frontend markdown processor.
osv:CVE-2018-9986
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:57.933204650Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://blog.zulip.org/2018/04/12/zulip-1-7-2-released/"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 438970,
"published_at": "2018-04-18T08:29:00.703+00:00"
}