CVE-2010-4183

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in HTML Purifier before 4.1.0, when Internet Explorer is used, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted (1) background-image, (2) background, or (3) font-family Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) property, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2479.

Affected products

Htmlpurifier: through 4.0.0; 1.0.0, 1.0.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2 (+24)

References

http://htmlpurifier.org/news/2010/0915-4.2.0-released
http://htmlpurifier.org/security/2010/css-quoting
http://htmlpurifier.org/news/2010/0915-4.2.0-released
http://htmlpurifier.org/security/2010/css-quoting

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