Medium
Security advisory
GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions version 8.4 up to 10.4 are vulnerable to XSS because a lack of input validation in the merge request component leads to cross site scripting (specifically, filenames in changes tabs of merge requests). This is fixed in 10.6.3, 10.5.7, and 10.4.7.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-9243
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:21 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions version 8.4 up to 10.4 are vulnerable to XSS because a lack of input validation in the merge request component leads to cross site scripting (specifically, filenames in changes tabs of merge requests). This is fixed in 10.6.3, 10.5.7, and 10.4.7.
osv:CVE-2018-9243
Complete source record
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