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Python Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2019-16935 - Vulnerability Database
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Python Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2019-16935

Medium
Reference: CVE-2019-16935
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16935
Title: Python Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability
Overview:

The documentation XML-RPC server in Python through 2.7.16 3.x through 3.6.9 and 3.7.x through 3.7.4 has XSS via the server_title field. This occurs in Lib/DocXMLRPCServer.py in Python 2.x and in Lib/xmlrpc/server.py in Python 3.x. If set_server_title is called with untrusted input arbitrary JavaScript can be delivered to clients that visit the http URL for this server.