CVE-2017-15717: Cross-site Scripting

January 10, 2018 (updated February 2, 2018)

A flaw in the way URLs are escaped and encoded in the org.apache.sling.xss.impl.XSSAPIImpl#getValidHref and org.apache.sling.xss.impl.XSSFilterImpl#isValidHref allows special crafted URLs to pass as valid, although they carry XSS payloads.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15717
s.apache.org/CVE-2017-15717

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