Medium
Security advisory
A stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the GitLab Flavored Markdown in GitLab CE/EE version 8.4 and above allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code on the victim's behalf.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-39887
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the GitLab Flavored Markdown in GitLab CE/EE version 8.4 and above allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code on the victim's behalf.
osv:CVE-2021-39887
Complete source record
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