Bug 2571180 (CVE-2026-120212) - CVE-2026-120212 perl-web-simple: Web::Simple: Cross-Site Scripting via unescaped single quotes in HTML attributes
Summary: CVE-2026-120212 perl-web-simple: Web::Simple: Cross-Site Scripting via unesca...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-120212
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-11-10 20:44 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-11 01:27 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-11-10 20:44:22 UTC
Web::Simple versions before 0.037 for Perl do not escape single quotes in HTML::Tags output.

HTML::Tags and XML::Tags escape a plain string value by replacing only &, ", < and > with entities. A value interpolated into a single-quoted attribute, as in <a href='$value'>, can therefore close the attribute and add new ones, such as an event handler. Double-quoted attributes are not affected.

An attacker who controls a value that an application interpolates into a single-quoted attribute can inject script into the generated page.


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