CVE-2014-8683

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-11-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in models/issue.go in Gogs (aka Go Git Service) 0.3.1-9 through 0.5.x before 0.5.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the text parameter to api/v1/markdown.

Affected products

Gogits Gogs: through 0.5.5; 0.3.1-9, 0.4.1, 0.4.2, 0.5.0, 0.5.2

References

http://gogs.io/docs/intro/change_log.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129118/Gogs-Markdown-Renderer-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/34
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533996/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98693
http://gogs.io/docs/intro/change_log.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129118/Gogs-Markdown-Renderer-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/34
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533996/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98693

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