Medium
Security advisory
It was found in all keycloak versions before 9.0.0 that links to external applications (Application Links) in the admin console are not validated properly and could allow Stored XSS attacks. An authed malicious user could create URLs to trick users in other realms, and possibly conduct further attacks.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-1697
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
It was found in all keycloak versions before 9.0.0 that links to external applications (Application Links) in the admin console are not validated properly and could allow Stored XSS attacks. An authed malicious user could create URLs to trick users in other realms, and possibly conduct further attacks.
osv:CVE-2020-1697
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-1697",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
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"title": "CVE-2020-1697",
"summary": "It was found in all keycloak versions before 9.0.0 that links to external applications (Application Links) in the admin console are not validated properly and could allow Stored XSS attacks. An authed malicious user could create URLs to trick users in other realms, and possibly conduct further attacks.",
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],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:51.480972305Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1697"
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"related_cves": [
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"security_relevant": true,
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 437487,
"published_at": "2020-02-10T15:15:21.497+00:00"
}