OWASP AntiSamy Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

MEDIUM 6.1CVE-2017-14735 · GHSA-q44v-xc3g-v7jq · Published 25/09/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-14735 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting org.owasp.antisamy:antisamy, antisamy (antisamy project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 76.7% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.5.7 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
org.owasp.antisamy:antisamy Maven	`< 1.5.7`	`1.5.7`
antisamy antisamy_project	`< 1.5.7`	`1.5.7`

OWASP AntiSamy before 1.5.7 allows XSS via HTML5 entities, as demonstrated by use of : to construct a javascript: URL.

NVD description

OWASP AntiSamy before 1.5.7 allows XSS via HTML5 entities, as demonstrated by use of &colon; to construct a javascript: URL.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

Maven

< 1.5.7

1.5.7

< 1.5.7

1.5.7

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