CVE-2020-27511

An issue was discovered in the stripTags and unescapeHTML components in Prototype 1.7.3 where an attacker can cause a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) through stripping crafted HTML tags.

CVSS v3.1

7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

2.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 84th percentile

Published

2021-06-21

Updated

2024-08-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• yetingli/PoCs/blob/main/CVE-2020-27511/Prototype.md

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2021-29059
• CVE-2021-29060
• CVE-2021-29061
• CVE-2021-29063
• CVE-2020-27488
• CVE-2020-27515