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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2024-22414 EUVD-2024-19966

User profile page vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in flaskBlog

Published Jan 17, 2024 · Updated Jun 17, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

flaskBlog is a simple blog app built with Flask. Improper storage and rendering of the `/user/<user>` page allows a user's comments to execute arbitrary javascript code. The html template `user.html` contains the following code snippet to render comments made by a user: `<div class="content" tag="content">{{comment[2]|safe}}</div>`. Use of the "safe" tag causes flask to _not_ escape the rendered content. To remediate this, simply remove the `|safe` tag from the HTML above. No fix is is available and users are advised to manually edit their installation.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
DogukanUrker flaskBlog — —

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