CVE-2013-4891

The xss_clean function in CodeIgniter before 2.1.4 might allow remote attackers to bypass an intended protection mechanism and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an unclosed HTML tag.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.1 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-02-21

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Codeigniter (Codeigniter)

References

• https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/issues/4020
• https://nealpoole.com/blog/2013/07/codeigniter-21-xss-clean-filter-bypass/
• https://www.codeigniter.com/userguide2/changelog.html