Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 11.1.x before 11.1.5 and 11.2.x before 11.2.2. There is Persistent XSS in the Merge Request Changes View.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-16050
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 11.1.x before 11.1.5 and 11.2.x before 11.2.2. There is Persistent XSS in the Merge Request Changes View.
osv:CVE-2018-16050
Complete source record
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