CWE-83 18 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-83: Improper Neutralization of Script in Attributes in a Web Page

Overview

CWE-83 (Improper Neutralization of Script in Attributes in a Web Page) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes "javascript:" or other URIs from dangerous attributes within tags, such as onmouseover, onload, onerror, or style.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined
technology Web Based Often
technology Web Server Undetermined

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2026-8245 2026-05-21 Concrete CMS 9.5.0 and below is vulnerable to Reflected XSS in Legacy Pagination via HTML attribute injection. Concrete\Core\Legacy\Pagination builds pagination links by raw-interpolating its $URL fie…
CVE-2026-23516 2026-01-21 CVAT is an open source interactive video and image annotation tool for computer vision. In versions 2.2.0 through 2.54.0, an attacker is able to execute arbitrary JavaScript in a victim user's CVAT UI…
CVE-2026-22849 2026-01-21 Saleor is an e-commerce platform. Starting in version 3.0.0 and prior to versions 3.20.108, 3.21.43, and 3.22.27, Saleor was allowing users to modify rich text fields with HTML without running any bac…
CVE-2025-67163 2025-12-18 A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Simple Machines Forum v2.1.6 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via injecting a crafted payload into the Forum Name paramete…
CVE-2025-11682 2025-10-27 Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the LMT Dashboard of the Perx Customer Engagement & Loyalty Platform allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in a victi…
CVE-2025-4615 2025-10-09 An improper input neutralization vulnerability in the management web interface of the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software enables an authenticated administrator to bypass system restrictions and execu…
CVE-2025-58746 2025-09-08 The Volkov Labs Business Links panel for Grafana provides an interface to navigate using external links, internal dashboards, time pickers, and dropdown menus. Prior to version 2.4.0, a malicious acto…
CVE-2025-0137 2025-05-14 An improper input neutralization vulnerability in the management web interface of the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software enables a malicious authenticated read-write administrator to impersonate anot…
CVE-2025-0125 2025-04-11 An improper input neutralization vulnerability in the management web interface of the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software enables a malicious authenticated read-write administrator to impersonate anot…
CVE-2024-9103 2025-03-24 Improper Neutralization of Script in Attributes in a Web Page vulnerability in Forcepoint Email Security (Blocked Messages module) allows Stored XSS. This issue affects Email Security through 8.5.5.
CVE-2025-27145 2025-02-25 copyparty, a portable file server, has a DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerability in versions prior to 1.16.15. The vulnerability is considered low-risk. By handing someone a maliciously-named fil…
CVE-2024-52595 2024-11-19 lxml_html_clean is a project for HTML cleaning functionalities copied from `lxml.html.clean`. Prior to version 0.4.0, the HTML Parser in lxml does not properly handle context-switching for special HTM…
CVE-2024-26283 2024-02-22 An attacker could have executed unauthorized scripts on top origin sites using a JavaScript URI when opening an external URL with a custom Firefox scheme. This vulnerability affects Firefox for iOS < …
CVE-2023-37908 2023-10-25 XWiki Rendering is a generic Rendering system that converts textual input in a given syntax into another syntax. The cleaning of attributes during XHTML rendering, introduced in version 14.6-rc-1, all…
CVE-2023-30958 2023-08-03 A security defect was identified in Foundry Frontend that enabled users to potentially conduct DOM XSS attacks if Foundry's CSP were to be bypassed. This defect was resolved with the release of Found…
CVE-2023-32070 2023-05-10 XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Prior to version 14.6-rc-1, HTML rendering didn't check for dangerous attributes/attribute values. This allowed cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via attrib…
CVE-2022-39262 2022-11-03 GLPI stands for Gestionnaire Libre de Parc Informatique. GLPI is a Free Asset and IT Management Software package, GLPI administrator can define rich-text content to be displayed on login page. The dis…
CVE-2020-14525 2020-09-18 Philips Clinical Collaboration Platform, Versions 12.2.1 and prior, does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output used as a webpage that is serv…

Previous names

  • XSS using Script in Attributes (2008-04-11)
  • Failure to Sanitize Script in Attributes in a Web Page (2010-04-05)

Content submission

Name
PLOVER
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Relationships, Observed_Example, Taxonomy_Mappings, Weakness_Ordinalities
2009-10-29 CWE Content Team 1.6 updated Relationships
2010-04-05 CWE Content Team 1.8.1 updated Description, Name, Related_Attack_Patterns
2010-06-21 CWE Content Team 1.9 updated Potential_Mitigations
2011-03-29 CWE Content Team 1.12 updated Potential_Mitigations
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Relationships
2012-10-30 CWE Content Team 2.3 updated Potential_Mitigations
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2017-05-03 CWE Content Team 2.11 updated Potential_Mitigations, Related_Attack_Patterns
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Causal_Nature
2019-06-20 CWE Content Team 3.3 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Relationships
2020-06-25 CWE Content Team 4.1 updated Potential_Mitigations
2021-10-28 CWE Content Team 4.6 updated Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Detection_Factors, Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Applicable_Platforms, Relationships
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