CVE-2015-6790

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-12-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The WebPageSerializerImpl::openTagToString function in WebKit/Source/web/WebPageSerializerImpl.cpp in the page serializer in Google Chrome before 47.0.2526.80 does not properly use HTML entities, which might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted document, as demonstrated by a double-quote character inside a single-quoted string.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 47.0.2526.73

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/12/stable-channel-update_8.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00016.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00017.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2618.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3418
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78734
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2860-1
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=542054
https://codereview.chromium.org/1398453005
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/12/stable-channel-update_8.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00016.html

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