Django Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2016-2512 - Vulnerability Database

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Django Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2016-2512

High

Reference: CVE-2016-2512

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2512

Title: Django Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability

Overview:

The utils.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.8.10 and 1.9.x before 1.9.3 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks or possibly conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a URL containing basic authentication as demonstrated by http://mysite.example.comattacker.com.