CVE-2019-8444

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
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: 2019-08-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The wikirenderer component in Jira before version 7.13.6, and from version 8.0.0 before version 8.3.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in image attribute specification.

Affected products

Atlassian Jira: from 7.7 before 7.13.6; from 8.0.0 before 8.3.2 — fixed in 7.13.6, 8.3.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Atlassian Jira 7.13.6, 8.3.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-69779
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0833
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-69779
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0833

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