CVE-2019-11715: Due to an error while parsing page content, it is possible for properly sanitized user input to be misinterpreted and lead to XSS hazards on

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• mozilla firefoxbefore 60.8.0
• mozilla firefoxbefore 68.0
• mozilla thunderbirdbefore 60.8.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (mozilla). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Mozilla Firefox

  • unspecified and later · before 68affected

• Mozilla Firefox ESR

  • unspecified and later · before 60.8affected

• Mozilla Thunderbird

  • unspecified and later · before 60.8affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2010-3765Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x through 3.5.14 and 3.6.x through 3.6.11, Thunderbird 3.1.6 before 3.1.6 and 3.0.x before 3.0.10, and SeaMonkey 2.x befKEV
  94Now
• CVE-2019-11708Insufficient vetting of parameters passed with the Prompt:Open IPC message between child and parent processes can result in the non-sandboxeKEV
  87Now
• CVE-2015-4495The PDF reader in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0.3, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1.1, and Firefox OS before 2.2 allows remote attackers to bypassKEV
  86Now

Published before and after this one in the same product

• ← EarlierCVE-2019-11713Jul 23, 2019 · A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in HTTP/2 when a cached HTTP/2 stream is closed while still in use, resulting in a potentially expl
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• ← EarlierCVE-2019-11714Jul 23, 2019 · Necko can access a child on the wrong thread during UDP connections, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash in some instances.
  40Plan
• Later →CVE-2019-11716Jul 23, 2019 · Until explicitly accessed by script, window.globalThis is not enumerable and, as a result, is not visible to code such as Object.getOwnPrope
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Root cause

User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

1commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.