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PYSEC-2011-18

Quick fix

PYSEC-2011-18 — feedparser: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'feedparser>=5.0'

Details

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in feedparser.py in Universal Feed Parser (aka feedparser or python-feedparser) before 5.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving nested CDATA stanzas.

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Affected packages

PyPI/feedparser

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 5.0

Fixpip install --upgrade 'feedparser>=5.0'

References

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680074[REPORT]
http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=195[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-04/msg00026.html[WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/44074[ADVISORY]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47177[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684877[REPORT]
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-5065.html[WEB]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:082[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3mwg-gp5g-fv3q[ADVISORY]